The Kentucky Wildlands

Museums

Rowan County Veterans’ Museum

Dedicated to honoring our flag, military and veterans, this nonprofit organization is committed to education and preservation. It has over 375 artifacts from all five branches of the military. Free tours are offered to educational and civic groups upon request. Freedom Park, a memorial wall displaying names of Veterans, celebrates and commemorates our Rowan County

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Samuel May House

Historic preservation Samuel May was born and raised in Virginia by the son of a Revolutionary war veteran. He moved his family here and soon after built the family home in 1818. Workers gathered hand-hewn logs from the surrounding forests, molded Kentucky clay bricks on-site, and ground freshwater mussel shells out of the Levisa Fork

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Oven Fork Mercantile

The Oven Fork Mercantile sits nestled in the valley between Pine and Black Mountains, halfway between Whitesburg and Cumberland on Highway 119. In the 1920’s, it was known as Sumpter’s Grocery and Service Station. The coming of the railroad, the building of coal camps, and the onset of World War 1 had brought a coal

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