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From: Sandi Gorin <>
Subject: EDMONTON, KY
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:45:19 -0600

Taken from a homemakers booklet written ca 1940.

"The little town of Edmonton, the county-seat of Metcalfe County is
located near the center of the county. Edmonton was surveyed and laid off
as a town in 1800, then when the county of Metcalfe was formed in 1860, it
was named the county-seat, as it is less than a mile from the center of the
county. The county-seat was named for Edmundd ROGERS. Mr. ROGERS was born
in 1762, reared in Caroline county, VA. He was a soldier in the
Revolutionary War, and he immigrated to Kentucky in 1763. He was a land
surveyor, a very successful financier, and acquired from 15,000 to 20,000
acres of land, and slave property. When Mr. ROGERS surveyed and laid off
the town of Edmonton he would give a lot to any man who would build a house
on it.

November 1896, the population of Edmonton was one hundred and seventy-five.
In 1940 the population was 500, but the population has rapidly increased
since the last census.

In the year 1871, the General Assembly of Kentucky fixed the boundary of
Edmonton that all portions of Metcalfe County extending from the
court-house in Edmonton, in said county, to east of South Fork of Little
Barren at the mouth of Cave Spring Branch and within one-half mile from
said court-house, shall be the town of Edmonton.

In 1863 the first court-house, a wooden structure, was burned, another
building was erected and it, with all records were burned in 1868. The
present court-house was built in 1868 and 1869.

The first county officers of Metcalfe county: Robinson Beauchamp, who
assisted in organizing Metcalfe county, was elected its first county
attorney; James F KEEL, County Clerk; J. Y. WALLACE, County Judge; R. H
YOUNG, Circuit Clerk; Joe WITTY, Sheriff, and James T JONES, Jailor.

The earliest church in Metcalfe County was the U.S.A. Presbyterian. It ws a
log structure located on what is known as the POOLE property. The site
where the church now stands was given by Edmund P. ROGERS, and the deed for
the ground was made in 1838.

The first church erected was a wooden building. The next building was brick
and was destroyed by fire in 1920. The present brick building was erected
in 1922-23.

The early schools of Edmonton were private ones. One of the first was
taught by a member of the REID family in a log house situated in the beech
woods just back of the present T K REID home. Part of the old building
stood as late as twenty years ago. Around 1873 Richard U SLEMMONS, father
of Mrs. J W BARTON, built the home where the J W BARTON family now lives
and used it for a school room. Pupils came not only from Metcalfe county
but from all surrounding counties. The school was known as the Edmonton
Academy. It had three departments, primary, intermediate and senior. The
senior course included many of the subjects not taught in the High Schools.

Edmonton High School was organized January 1910. A. B. THOMPSON was the
principal and only high school teacher. The first Edmonton High School
students were Joe MARTIN, Paul BUSHONG, Maurice MUNCIE, Bessie AMOS and
Wyatt ROMINES. Bessie AMOS was the only graduate in the class of 1914 as
some of the others entered school elsewhere and some dropped out of school.

To be continued - Sandi

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