Lockport

by Mike Grimes (Compiler)

History of Henry County, Kentucky's famous river town, Lockport. Complied and edited by local historian Mike Grimes. Forward by Ella Dempsey Robinson.

From the Forward: Located at the mouth of Six Mile Creek on the Kentucky River, Lockport is a small community with two churches, one grocery store and but a few houses remaining. It sits in a deep basin with very steep hills around, thus has flooded numerous times over the years. The major old landmarks, hotels, beautiful old houses have been destroyed by flood waters and fires. Rolling farm land and river bottoms prevail. The numerous early Indian artifacts collected in the river bottoms and along the creeks over the years, support the reality that early inhabitants and/or settlers were attracted to the locality.

277 pages, Paperback

Published August 4, 2018

Reviews

[Olivia · Rating 4 out of 5]

The past of this river town is certainly more interesting than the current town. It’s sad to see how a once thriving place has been reduced to just a few homes. Of course, with the flooding that seems to happen each year, I’ve always said that you’d have to pay me to live in Lockport. I found the parts of the book about the Great Flood of 1937 and similar years the most interesting.

[Jinjer]

Why this book? My dad’s family are from Henry County Kentucky and he often mentioned Lockport.