Kentucky Library and Museum online -- Photo of Kentucky politicians on the steamboat, the Nolin

	Photograpic Print, 1938
	Visitors aboard the Steamboat Nolin
	Kentucky Library Photograph Collection # WHN11
	Item/Collection Note: 1938, When KENTUCKY ROCK ASPHALT COMPANY was flourishing its operations were visited by a group of state and county officials with the company's plant superintendent Harry St. G. T. Carmichael as host. In this 1938 photograph made with the visitors aboard the Steamer Nolin, on Pigeon Creek are Gov. A. B. 'Happy' Chandler, seated left; A. B. Mitchell, Chalybeate, representative of Edmonson and Butler Counties; and Robert Montgomery, Mayfield, member of the Kentucky Highway Commission. Among those standing are J. Boadley Davenport, Sheriff of Warren County; T. C. Ferguson, Smiths Grove, State Senator; H. T. St. G. Carmichael, Burnett; Emory G. Dent, Bowling Green, Kentucky Highway Commissioner; William H. Natcher (standing behind Chandler), Warren County Attorney; Cecil Williams, Somerset (in shirt sleeves), member of Kentucky Highway Commission, and Clyde Lester, Representative, Graves County. On the lower deck is Mose Basham, fireman on the tow boat." [Edmonson News, Brownsville, KY, March 15, 1979]

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