Paradise circa 1900

Legend:
Story as to how Paradise, Kentucky was named.

A family was traveling up the Green River in a final effort to find a
cure for whatever was ailing their seriously ill child.  Every attempt
so far had failed.  Nobody knew the cause of the child's condition and
thus no one could help her with a cure or even relieve her symptoms.  An
Owensboro doctor told them that way up on the Green River there was a
place the Indians used to say had mysterious medicinal powers.  As a
rule he wouldn't advise anyone to take such a superstition seriously,
but as he could find no hope for the child in conventional medicine,
anything that could possibly help should be attempted.

So the family started up the river to find this mysterious place.  One
night, they camped just above Stum's Landing, and when they awoke the
next morning the child had completely recovered.  The grateful parents
said that for such a miracle this must truly be paradise.  So it became.

Source: Helen Mckeown

 Paradise Lost: the extinct communities of Muhlenberg
 

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Airdrie Smelting tower 1885

Civil War Vets 1912

Easter Rabbit Hunt 1912

Fishermens Resort 1900

Gilmore Family 1911

Gilmour General Store 1909

Gilmour General Store 1916

Green River Boats 1900

Green River Ferry 1890

Hotel Airdrie 1875

Jim Gilmour 1910

Leona on the Green River 1907

Mail Boat 1918

 Main Street Paradise 1898

Main Street Paradise 1950

Paradise 1898

Paradise Aerial 1965

Paradise Area Showing Coal Plant on site

Paradise Landing 1890

Paradise Post Office 1967

Rochester Dam 1925