Owen County, Kentucky
Public Library
N. Main Street, Owenton, KY 40359 --- Phone: (502) 484-3450
The Owen County Public Library is open on Mondays from 9:30 AM until 8:00 PM and Tues-Sat from 9:30 AM until 5:00 PM. The Library houses the records of the County Clerk's office on microfilm. The Library has a microfilm reader, but does not currently have a printer. Xerox copies of printed materials may be made for $0.10/copy. Several titles among the Library's collection should be of interest to historians and genealogists. The staff will gladly answer simple inquiries and forward requests for information to members of the Historical Society.
The Owen County Historical Society maintains a collection of historical and genealogical materials which is housed at the Library. This collection includes local records, family histories, census records, and cemetery records. We also house the county newspaper (News-Herald) microfilms from 1905 to 1995. The Historical Society has a number of publications for sale (see below) which may be purchased through the mail to the Library.
Genealogists traveling to Owen Co. may be interested to know that the Owen County Courthouse is closed on Wednesdays and on Saturday afternoons.
Please feel free to post our e-mail address and telephone number (502-484-3450) and let us know if we can be of any further help.
Genealogical Books & Pamplets
For Sale at the Library
Mail orders to the Library should include the p/h charges.
Arranged by cost:
$37.50, p/h $5.00; Owen County, Kentucky Pictorial History. Hardbound.
$25.00, p/h $5.00; Owenton IOOF Cemetery records, compiled by Shirley Harden
Goodrich. Excellent effort; a must have book for genealogists working with Owen County. Cross-indexed to funeral records and obituaries.
Looseleaf.
$19.00, p/h $3.25; History of Mountain Island and early Owen churches. Bound, pb.
$15.00, p/h $2.75; Eternal Rest, indexing of many Owen County Cemetery listings. Included as appendix: New Liberty IOOF and Poplar Grove IOOF cemeteries. Bound,
pb.
$12.50, p/h $3.00; Sweet Owen, a history of Owen County by Mariam Sidebottom
Houchens. Bound, pb
$12.00, p/h $3.75; Funeral records. Vol 1. Covering the very short period of 23 July 1896 to 24 Nov 1896. Sue Waldrop, compiler.
$ 8.50, p/h $2.00; The Saga of John Hammond, by Stratton Owen Hammon.
$ 5.50, p/h $1.50; index to the Mountain Island history. Compiled by Doris Shell Gill.
Looseleaf.
$ 2.75, p/h $1.00; Sesqui-centennial Newspaper and an 1883 Atlas of Owen Co., KY.
$ 2.00, p/h $1.75; Owen County Historical Almanac, 1964-65.
$ 2.00, p/h $1.75; Owen County Historical Almanac, 1966.
The following are mostly newspaper reprint pamphlets and sell for
$ 1.00@ with p/h $.50:
Big Eagle Country, by Ruth Radcliffe Williamson.
Dallasburg-Wheatley, News-Herald 1962.
Monterey, News-Herald, 1957.
New Liberty, by Clayton Roland.
Owenton City Directory, 1958 house/street numbers.
Perry Park, by Charles Johnson in News-Herald 1957.
Sweet Owen County, KY, News-Herald 1958.
A new looseleaf history on Lusby Mills is now available but pricing information is not. This is apparently a reprint of a January 1948 booklet printed by The Owenton News-Herald for the Lusby Mills Homemakers, a ladies club. The quality of the original was generally excellent, containing many photos of structures and people. (These have suffered in the copy work.) But there are many useful histories, stories, and biographies. The language work here is book quality. Cost area will be $10 to $15.