Genealogy/History Fair and Book Sale May 10, 2003 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Free Admission Nolin RECC Cooperative Meeting Center 411 Ring Road Elizabethtown, KY 42701 This is a local genealogy/history fair. Books will be on sale representing the history of towns, churches, individuals, and events from the 11 Kentucky counties represented by Ancestral Trails Historical Society (Hardin, Bullitt, Meade, LaRue, Nelson, Breckinridge, Edmonson, Grayson, Hart, Jefferson, and Harrison County in Indiana). County marriage records, cemetery records, census records, bible records, church records, pension records, civil war soldiers, early preachers, pioneers and lots of other subjects. Representatives from the various Historical/Genealogical Societies located in the counties served by ATHS will be present to sell their books, answer questions, and explain membership benefits. Local authors will be present with their books. Their books will include a wide range of subjects ranging from Civil War history of the area, History of St. Patrick's Church of Stithton, History of Fort Knox, History of African Americans in Northern Hardin County, newspaper abstracts from various county newspapers of the 19th and 20th century (these are a gold mine of historical/genealogical information), and much more. A special display will depict the history of the land that is now the Fort Knox Military Reservation. Poster size photographs and maps will show the now extinct towns, churches, businesses, schools, and homes consumed by the establishment and expansion of Fort Knox. Acquisition maps showing the location of the hundreds of individual properties consumed, along with names of the property owners, will be available for examination. Photographs of the 116 cemeteries, some dating back to the late 1700s, that remain on Fort Knox will be available as well as the names and locations of over 3500 gravesites within these cemeteries. If you have any historic/genealogical ties to the land that is now Fort Knox you will not want to miss this. Authentically costumed reenactors (Frontier and Civil War periods) will be present. Refreshments will be available for purchase