SCUFFLESVILLE Per "Jessamine County, Ky 1798-1993" submitted by Betty Hager Scott Scufflesville, the small, but once busy, river community where I grew up, is located on Highway #1542 about 9 miles from Nicholasville and 1 1/2 miles from Pollard. Origin of the name probably came from "scuffling" to make a living. One day someone came down and asked where "Tuff It Out" was. In the 1930's it was heavily populated. There were 12 or 15 houses, plus Mr. Alex Reynolds had a grist mill. I remember watching him grind corn to make meal. He had a little wooden doll he called Limber Jim. He had made him from wood with jointed arms and legs. He would let it dance on the belt that ran the mill. In one side of the building he had a small grocery store. He lived nearby in a log house and part of his kitchen floor was dirt. On around the road, Mr. Ezra English had a grocery store. My father, Riley Hager, had a grocery store at one time, but I was too young to remember it. We had a church named Antioch Christian that started in 1908 and it is still holding services on Sunday afternoon. We used to have showboats come down the river and stop at what we called the sawmill landing. We would walk on a board and go on the boat. It was something to see how it was lit up since nobody had electricity. In the river bottom, corn and hemp seed were the main crops. Nobody had running water in their houses, some had wells, but most of us carried water from what we called the Alex Spring. When the river would rise and get over the spring, Mr. Alex Reynolds would make a dripping spring where the water came out of the cliff and filled your buckets, which were carried a good ways to our homes. Mr. Ebb Miller had a sawmill, supplying lumber over the area and others. We walked to Pollard School, a two-room schoolhouse. We had the first three grades in one room and the higher-ups in the other room. I remember Mrs. Dallas Johns, Mrs. Aline Welch-Johnson, and Mrs. Mary Ruth Cassity-Johns who taught the first, second and third grades. Mrs. Virginia Reynolds had 4,5,6,7 and 8. The school was heated with a coal stove and we had a bucket of drinking water on a table. Things sure were different then.