Lincoln County didn't know much about Johnson Central after the game last week, including where the school is located.

 

Prep Football Playoffs: Lincoln's next foe is Johnson Central

 

The Patriots beat Pulaski 22-14 here Friday to advance to the Class AAAAA quarterfinals where they will host Johnson Central, a 32-14 winner over Montgomery County. However, the Patriots insisted they know next to nothing about their next opponent, including the school's location in Paintsville.

 

 

"I have heard they have a good running back," said Lincoln junior defensive end Rob Conatser, who had 13 tackles against Pulaski, said. "I don't even have a clue where Johnson Central is. I've never seen them play."

Lincoln County didn't know much about Johnson Central after the game last week, including where the school is located.

Oh no. Here we go again.

Nothing more than a testament to staying focused and taking them one game at a time. Leave the looking ahead to the fans...........

I always associate where I am from (Johnson County) with Loretta Lynn.

The information I had was that he was supposed to have an MRI yesterday. I have heard nothing other than that.

 

Is this one of the better players, and where does he play?

Oh no. Here we go again.

 

:lol: Maybe someday we can make a name for ourselves. Its okay though, I knew the relative location of Lincoln Co. but didnt know the town of it. Found out that it was Stanford about a week ago.

 

I always associate where I am from (Johnson County) with Loretta Lynn.

 

:lol: I dont.

 

Is this one of the better players, and where does he play?

 

Yes. Nathanial will be a huge loss to the Eagles if he doesnt get to play. This kid is an excellent defensive player that makes big plays. He was selected to the Preaseason Tremendous 26. JC does have some decent depth at this position but losing Dials for the season would be tough.

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We all know you were born a coal miners daughter. :lol:

:lol: Maybe someday we can make a name for ourselves. Its okay though, I knew the relative location of Lincoln Co. but didnt know the town of it. Found out that it was Stanford about a week ago.

 

JC Radio guys didn't know where Stanford was either...at least they didn't call it Lincolnville. :sssh:

 

 

:lol: I dont.

 

 

Neither do I!!!

According to the Litkenhouse...take it for what it's worth...Lincoln County is a 2.5 point favorite in this one.

I thought they taught Kentucky History in the 7th Grade. At least they did when I went to school. Every Kentuckian should be able to name at least the county seat of each county.

 

Stanford claims to be the state's second oldest city, behind Harrodsburg. There was Logan's Fort in Stanford and Harrod's Fort in Harrodsburg. The Indians attacked the settlers at Logan's Fort, driving them to Fort Harrod. From that, Harrodsburg claims being the oldest.

 

Lincoln was one of the three original counties in the state, along with Fayette and Jefferson. Almost every county south and west of Lincoln County was formed from the original Lincoln County.

 

Here, for the benefit of our Johnson County friends, is the history of Lincoln County, which is a big part of the history of Kentucky:

 

The first paths blazed through the wilderness in central Kentucky were "traces", notches axed into trees to make the route. Often these traces followed trails cut by the hooves of buffalo or tramped down by the feet of the Indian. In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail to Kentucky and with some 30 axe men cut a path by joining up buffalo trails and Indian tracks to form the first continuous route through the Cumberland Gap.

 

Colonel Benjamin Logan, a Virginian seeking fortune in Kentucky, was chiefly responsible for the trace that bore his name. Logan had come through the mountains with Daniel Boone but struck west while Boone went north to found Boonesboro on the Kentucky River. Logan's Trace led to the banks of a creek near a spring where he built a fort that he called St. Asaph's, who was a Welsh saint traditionally honored on May 1, the day the construction of the fort began in 1775.

 

St. Asaph's soon became better known as Logan's Fort or Logan's Station. May 20, 1777, brought a fierce fifty-three day Indian attack on the wilderness fort, but one which those inside successfully resisted. This caused the tiny fort to be described as "standing fort" and it said the contraction of this into "Stanford" gave the city its present name. Stanford is the county seat of Lincoln County, one of the first three counties into which Kentucky was divided in 1780 while still part of Virginia.

 

In 1795 Logan's trace became part of the famous Wilderness Road by act of the Kentucky Legislature. Construction of this important road was started while Isaac Shelby, a Lincoln County resident, served as Kentucky's first Governor. Shelby's home, "Traveler's Rest", noted for its hospitality, is located just four miles northwest of Stanford.

 

Today automobile Route U.S. 150 follows generally where the Wilderness Road once led. Along Route 150, a few miles south of Stanford, stands the William Whitley House, built beside the Wilderness Road and known as the first brick house west of the Allegenies. Stanford's Main Street was once part of the Wilderness Road and is the oldest Main Street in Kentucky. The road passed the first court house built in Kentucky. The Harvey Helm Library and Museum is built around the oldest church in the state.

 

In later years, around 1865, the railroad became a major part of Stanford and provided a much needed rail head for Southern Kentucky. The Depot that served this rail head is located just north of Main Street in Stanford and has been restored to its original splendor. Beside the depot, one will find the first steam powered flour mill in Kentucky and just below the mill and the depot one will find one of the first automobile garage's in the state, circa 1905.

Every Kentuckian should be able to name at least the county seat of each county.[/b]

Wow! That would be a heck of a stunt! I bet there aren't more than three people in the state who can pull that off.

I thought they taught Kentucky History in the 7th Grade. At least they did when I went to school. Every Kentuckian should be able to name at least the county seat of each county.

 

Stanford claims to be the state's second oldest city, behind Harrodsburg. There was Logan's Fort in Stanford and Harrod's Fort in Harrodsburg. The Indians attacked the settlers at Logan's Fort, driving them to Fort Harrod. From that, Harrodsburg claims being the oldest.

 

Lincoln was one of the three original counties in the state, along with Fayette and Jefferson. Almost every county south and west of Lincoln County was formed from the original Lincoln County.

 

Here, for the benefit of our Johnson County friends, is the history of Lincoln County, which is a big part of the history of Kentucky:

 

The first paths blazed through the wilderness in central Kentucky were "traces", notches axed into trees to make the route. Often these traces followed trails cut by the hooves of buffalo or tramped down by the feet of the Indian. In 1775, Daniel Boone blazed a trail to Kentucky and with some 30 axe men cut a path by joining up buffalo trails and Indian tracks to form the first continuous route through the Cumberland Gap.

 

Colonel Benjamin Logan, a Virginian seeking fortune in Kentucky, was chiefly responsible for the trace that bore his name. Logan had come through the mountains with Daniel Boone but struck west while Boone went north to found Boonesboro on the Kentucky River. Logan's Trace led to the banks of a creek near a spring where he built a fort that he called St. Asaph's, who was a Welsh saint traditionally honored on May 1, the day the construction of the fort began in 1775.

 

St. Asaph's soon became better known as Logan's Fort or Logan's Station. May 20, 1777, brought a fierce fifty-three day Indian attack on the wilderness fort, but one which those inside successfully resisted. This caused the tiny fort to be described as "standing fort" and it said the contraction of this into "Stanford" gave the city its present name. Stanford is the county seat of Lincoln County, one of the first three counties into which Kentucky was divided in 1780 while still part of Virginia.

 

In 1795 Logan's trace became part of the famous Wilderness Road by act of the Kentucky Legislature. Construction of this important road was started while Isaac Shelby, a Lincoln County resident, served as Kentucky's first Governor. Shelby's home, "Traveler's Rest", noted for its hospitality, is located just four miles northwest of Stanford.

 

Today automobile Route U.S. 150 follows generally where the Wilderness Road once led. Along Route 150, a few miles south of Stanford, stands the William Whitley House, built beside the Wilderness Road and known as the first brick house west of the Allegenies. Stanford's Main Street was once part of the Wilderness Road and is the oldest Main Street in Kentucky. The road passed the first court house built in Kentucky. The Harvey Helm Library and Museum is built around the oldest church in the state.

 

In later years, around 1865, the railroad became a major part of Stanford and provided a much needed rail head for Southern Kentucky. The Depot that served this rail head is located just north of Main Street in Stanford and has been restored to its original splendor. Beside the depot, one will find the first steam powered flour mill in Kentucky and just below the mill and the depot one will find one of the first automobile garage's in the state, circa 1905.

 

7th grade was a long time ago for most of us. But thanks for the Kentucky History refresher course...interesting stuff. Here is some information on Paintsville and Johnson County. Some of your coaches and players may be interested in this information.

 

On February 24, 1984, the City of Paintsville celebrated its 150th Anniversary as a chartered city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

 

Although Paintsville was a small village, then located in Floyd County (Johnson County was not formed until 1843), the town had its beginnings much earlier than the year it received its charter. As early as 1780, what is now Paintsville was referred to in military dispatches of the American Revolution by two colonial officers scouting the area.

 

Because of its location at the confluence of the Big Sandy River and Paint Creek, Paintsville was first called Paint Lick Station and/or Paint Landing by the early settlers and visitors to this area. The first post office was established in 1824 and is listed in the National Archives as Paint Creek Post Office. The name was not formally changed to Paintsville by the U. S. Postal Service until June 21, 1843.

 

There have been many stories about how the names Paintsville and Paint Creek were attached to the village and the small stream which ran beside it and which now bisects it.

 

Some would have Daniel Boone involved. Others attribute the name to such early explorers and frontiersmen as Dr. Thomas Walker and Matthias Harmon.

 

Whichever is true, the names were clearly derived from the colorful Indian markings on the numerous white birch trees and rocks which lined the banks of Paint Creek. These early Indian ideographs gave evidence of frequent Indian visits to the junction of our two waterways. Indeed, archeological discoveries have confirmed that the Adena Indians, mound builders by tradition, were in the Paintsville area centuries before the discovery of North America by white men.

 

Although nomadic tribes of Indians from what is now Ohio and Tennessee made life hazardous along the Big Sandy River until the dawn of the 19th Century, by the time Paint Lick Station was established as a permanent village, Indian threats were no longer a problem.

 

As J. K. Wells observed so eloquently in his volume entitled The Gathering of Trades People, 1992, "It is difficult to pinpoint that hour at which a boy becomes a man or a group of buildings become a town. Certainly, in each instance the process is slow and gradual and the line to be crossed is ill defined. It was in the 1810s that the first homes were built on the site of present day Paintsville and in the 1820s that the bottom land was subdivided and laid off in lots."

 

Among the first settlers and property owners in what is now Paintsville were the Preston, Remy (Ramey), Dixon (Dickson), Huff, Franklin and Auxier families. These were soon joined by such names as Hager, Vaughan, Castle, VanHoose, Stafford and others.

 

As the names indicate, most of the families were of Scotch-Irish, English or German extraction. Many had fought in the late Revolutionary War and migrated from North Carolina, Virginia and Pennsylvania to the sheltering hills of eastern Kentucky.

 

Paintsville, like many small mountain villages, struggled along for its first 25 years.

 

There were no roads or highways. Communication with the outside world was very limited. Mail arrived by horseback and steamboat. Eventually, stage coaches ran from the Bluegrass. Travel was restricted to horseback and even then the horses stepped along creek beds and Indian paths.

 

The first steamboat traveled up the Big Sandy to Paintsville and beyond in 1837. It was the most exciting transition in the area's history. For the next 75 years, steamboats were a common and welcome sight along the banks of the Big Sandy River.

 

Just as Paintsville began to thrive as a commercial center, the onset of the Civil War in 1860 began to take its toll. As in other border states, brother was set against brother and families were torn by the deep emotional and political issues of the day.

 

At one point, the Johnson County Fiscal Court passed an ordinance that neither the United States nor the Confederate States flags could be flown in the county. When Colonel James A. Garfield and his Union Brigade marched on Paintsville in January of 1862, this law was quickly repealed and a new one passed which permitted only the Union flag to be flown at the Courthouse.

 

Garfield, a young lawyer soon to be an Ohio congressman and later President of the United States, routed Confederate forces camped in Paintsville and along the Big Sandy River, defeating the forces under General Humphrey Marshall at the Battle of Middle Creek in nearby Floyd County.

 

What made the Civil War even worse for the residents of Johnson County was the fact that not only was Kentucky a border state but Johnson County was a border county.

 

Floyd County to the south was generally Southern in its sympathies while Lawrence County to the north was pro-Union. It is not surprising to learn, therefore, that General Daniel Hager, Johnson County's first sheriff and an officer in the Kentucky Militia, had one son in Confederate service and another in the Union Kentucky 14th Volunteer Mounted Infantry. More significantly, it was learned much later that the elder Hager had joined the forces of General Marshall as a supply officer and spent the balance of the war in Virginia. His many relatives and friends in Johnson County thought he had retired to his Hager Hill farm.

 

Although emotions remained raw and tempers frequently flared, Paintsville and Johnson County joined the nation in recovering from the terrible effects of the War Between The States.

 

Doctors, lawyers and teachers had been present in Johnson County since soon after Paintsville's chartering. One of the more prominent teachers was a young man from Floyd County named Thomas Jefferson Mayo. Mayo moved to Paintsville soon after the Civil War and established a reputation as a gifted and talented teacher. He was to become far more famous as the father of John C. C. Mayo, the aggressive visionary and entrepreneur who opened the coal field of eastern Kentucky to the industrial north and single-handedly brought railroad service to the region.

 

Without the life and work of John C. C. Mayo Paintsville, its banks and churches, its streets and public utilities would have been many years later in arriving.

 

On September 1, 1904, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway opened its Paintsville depot. It had taken more than 25 years for the rails to travel 18 miles from Richardson in Lawrence County to Paintsville. Mayo, and the coal he made available, was totally responsible.

 

Coal had become an important potential resource for eastern Kentucky since before the Civil War. But the war had interrupted its development and dried up the necessary financing. John C. C. Mayo had the vision and the tenacity to make coal king in the mountains.

 

By 1910 tens of thousands of tons of coal were pouring out of eastern Kentucky.

 

Mayo was a millionaire, a political titan and eastern Kentucky's only member of the Democratic National Committee. He was influential in electing governors, senators and congressmen and contributed heavily to the presidential campaign of Woodrow Wilson in 1912. It was said of Mayo that he was "a teacher from the hills of eastern Kentucky who elected a West Virginia Senator from Maryland." This was in reference to the election of Clarence Watson, a native of Maryland, to the United States Senate from West Virginia. The description was, by all accounts, true.

 

With the coming of coal and rail service Paintsville truly came into its own.

 

In 1901 The Paintsville Herald ran its first issue. It is today the oldest continuous business in Paintsville. In 1902, Paintsville's first bank opened for business. In 1906, the remarkable invention of Alexander Graham Bell revolutionized communications in Paintsville as three full time operators responded to the rings of 26 telephones. By 1908 Paintsville had paved streets. 1905 saw the first vehicular bridge across Paint Creek, connecting the two of the major sections of what is now the City of Paintsville. 1912 brought natural gas and electrical service and in 1926 the city had full public water service and its first official fire department.

 

The first county fair was held in 1914 and the first Apple King was named in that year. But it was not until 1962 that the Johnson County Kentucky Apple Festival was held.

 

In the intervening years, Paintsville has continued to maintain its base as a center of commercial, professional, legal, medical, financial and transportation interests in the Big Sandy Valley. It has grown from less than 200 people in 1860 to nearly 5000. Its boundaries have expanded 9 times since 1834.

 

Most important, Paintsville and Johnson County have produced a greater proportion of physicians, lawyers, teachers, scientists, military leaders, outstanding athletes, businessmen and public servants than most towns of its size could ever boast. The same character traits which made this fact possible made Paintsville a reality and have kept it in the forefront of progress and development in eastern Kentucky.

I feel like I am taking a History class after reading this thread.

Wow! That would be a heck of a stunt! I bet there aren't more than three people in the state who can pull that off.

 

 

On second thought.......Every Kentuckian should be able to name the county seat of any county in which a team made the state semi-finals in football the previous season.

LC has taken a commanding 2 vote lead