The following article appeared in the December 10, 1942 edition of the Sandy Valley Enquirer: RUSH WAS SETTLED BY THE GEIGERS Rush was earlier known as Geigerville as it was first settled by the Geiger family. The Geigers built several houses here and established a general store business. Soon after, the A. C. & I. Railway Company opened and worked a seam of coal here and built a railroad from Ashland to Denton. They began to haul coal by rail from here in 1872. The first school was built at Norton Branch on the Norton property during the Civil War. The Geigers, in 1865, built a church for the Southern Methodists of this community. In 1872, the Ashland Coal Company built a M. E. Church. At the present time there are three active churches here: Missionary Baptist, Methodist and Pilgrim Holiness. The A. C. & I. continued the operation of their mines until 1922, when they sold this property to the American Rolling Mill Co. They sold the Railway Company to the C & O. In 1939, they sold the remainder of the property to Eastern Kentucky Land and Developing Co., who are now cutting the available timber. There are three truck coal mines operating now. R. C. Jordan, Ashland Firebrick Company, operates clay mines.