11 Pictures Of Kentucky That Will Make You Yearn For The Good Ole Days
By Rachel Shulhafer|Published January 27, 2017
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Rachel Shulhafer
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I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. I have lived elsewhere twice, but keep coming back. I'm a video editor and freelance writer who enjoys watching people wearing University of Louisville uniforms excel at sports, scaling the faces of large rocks, and hanging out with my border collie/laborador/cattle dog mutt thingy that I have.
Photography and art have the power to evoke certain moods and feelings, and to make people remember what it felt like in a different time. In Kentucky, we have many historic sites and buildings from different eras. These pictures of Kentucky will take you back in time and make you feel nostalgic for the good ole days.
1. This old wagon in western Kentucky was probably once used on a working farm, but here it reminds us of a different time.
3. This wagon being sheltered by a barn as snow blankets the surrounding landscape is located in Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, near Harrodsburg. Shaker Village is 3,000 acres of nature and history in a restored Shaker community.
4. Scenes like this are scattered all throughout Kentucky. There is something particularly calming and nostalgic about old barns surrounded by countryside, especially if it has a quilt painted on the front.
5. Union Station in Louisville now serves as the offices for the Transit Authority of River City, but it used to be a bustling station for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. It first opened in 1891. Do you ever wonder how different Kentucky would be if we still had an abundance of passenger trains for daily commuting?
6. Danville is home to many historic sites, and the city itself is known as the "City of Firsts." Constitution Square (pictured below) is an open-air museum with many buildings and replicas of buildings that are historically significant.
7. This waterwheel is located at Mill Springs Mill near Lake Cumberland. The mill was built in 1877 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Tours of the mill are available.
8. If you've ever driven the backroads around Horse Country, particularly on the scenic Old Frankfort Pike, you've probably seen these old dry rock walls. Many of them were built out of local limestone in the 19th century by Irish immigrants.
9. You'll find no shortage of nostalgic scenes around the Cumberland Gap and along Wilderness Road. This route was used by the first European explorers to cross over into Kentucky, and you'll see little bits of history everywhere.
10. Harrodsburg is Kentucky's oldest town. Old Fort Harrod State Park features a reconstruction of the first permanent American settlement in the state of Kentucky.
11. There are many old railroad bridges in Kentucky that are clearly from a different era, like the Valley Creek Railroad Bridge in Elizabethtown. It is now owned by the Paducah and Louisville Railway.
