Salyersville, Ky | Kentucky Life | KET

Kentucky Life visits the Magoffin County town of Salyersville. Located on the Licking River, the town (population 1,883) was established out of the former Adamsville in 1860, the same year the county was formed out of parts of Morgan, Johnson and Floyd counties.
A big draw here is the Pioneer Village, where the Magoffin County Historical Society has rebuilt original log cabins-some dating back to the early 1800s-to create a living history museum. The society also runs a genealogical library and honors a different family each year for Founders Days.
The town sits in the Eastern Coal Field, and a major employer here is Joy Global, a mining equipment manufacturer with operations worldwide.
Salyersville is rebuilding after an EF3 tornado on March 2, 2012, damaged schools, homes, and several Mountain Parkway businesses. With the work of untold numbers of people, the town is slowly getting back on its feet. Signs of renewal include groundbreaking for a new church, the reopening of the Subway restaurant, and the reopening of an auto parts store.
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  • @apkn1955
    @apkn195518 күн бұрын

    Many great memories visiting grandparents on burning fork. Ran the hills with my cousins.

  • @kennethrisner8648
    @kennethrisner86484 жыл бұрын

    i've never been there but this is where my grandparents on my dad's side came from. i wanna visit one day

  • @tsf5-productions
    @tsf5-productions6 жыл бұрын

    Beautiful Kentucky...one of my favorite states in the Union. Thanks for sharing this short documentary on the historic areas of Eastern KY.

  • @jcoolair200692
    @jcoolair2006927 жыл бұрын

    I miss my best friend's and family in Salyersvile where I grew up! Home to the best people on this planet! It's not a stereotype kind of place,greatest food you ever have the pleasure of eating.True peace of God's creation!

  • @willpowers4762
    @willpowers47626 жыл бұрын

    My Great grandfather, a Kentucky Colonel was from Salyersville. My Great grandmother was from there also. I hope to visit there in the near future.

  • @meaganadams5815

    @meaganadams5815

    5 жыл бұрын

    If you go looking for cemeteries, good luck. Theres about a hundred of them, they're not clearly marked, and forget GPS.

  • @kennethadamsjr.5551
    @kennethadamsjr.55514 жыл бұрын

    Just saw this video and enjoyed the information provided. I have wanted to visit this town for many years. My family roots in this town go back to the time period before it was called and included the time in which it was named Adamsville, after local landowner William "Uncle Billy" Adams. I need to visit.

  • @texasgal3001
    @texasgal3001 Жыл бұрын

    I'm glad to find your channel and thankful for the Magoffin County Historical Society. I've been going genealogy on the Montgomery and Franscisco (Cisco), families who apparently were some of the earliest settler in this area. A large group of families, together, relocated to Ardmore, Oklahoma in 1906. Thanks again for posting videos with Salyersville information.

  • @ep61611
    @ep616117 жыл бұрын

    I used to go through there often on my way to Pikeville, and remember when the tornado went through. I didn't hear about it, actually - I learned about it when I came down off the Mountain Parkway a week or so later and saw the devastation - I couldn't believe it. I never had time to stop and take in any part of the town, but I wanted to. Nice area and the people in that area of the country are so nice.

  • @NCLUSA
    @NCLUSA3 жыл бұрын

    When I lived in Morgan Co which is next Co over, people used to go to Magoffin Co to buy beer (: I believe both counties were Dry but there were bootleggers in Magoffin. If you ever go to KY you will get a lot of waves from people, and people on the street will always speak to you, very friendly people, oh and women will call you Honey (: it's a Southern thing.

  • @meaganadams5815
    @meaganadams58155 жыл бұрын

    My family lived here from about 1800 until the mid to late 1930s. My great grandmother was born there and I came a few years ago seeking family records. Luckily for me, they have a whole book for sale on the Howard's. Visiting was a surreal experience for me because I've never been anywhere with, you know, only one McDonalds. It's a beautiful place.

  • @kribbli4417
    @kribbli44174 жыл бұрын

    I love. This place my grandma lives here

  • @winstonlemaster1693
    @winstonlemaster16932 жыл бұрын

    My hometown ! Love it !

  • @AppalachiaInsider
    @AppalachiaInsider10 жыл бұрын

    I feel like the video was cut kinda short there at the end.

  • @user-km2iz8rk4f
    @user-km2iz8rk4f4 ай бұрын

    Almost all my dads side of the family is from salyersville. One of my old stomping grounds growing up.

  • @hopelove6377
    @hopelove63774 жыл бұрын

    My hometown I go back to visit family every 2-3 months. Good place to visit or retire. No good paying jobs sad to say. Only one factory there that my dad retired from, it used to be called Continental Conveyor now it’s Joy. Daddy was the 3 rd man that was hired when the factory first opened.

  • @coralkitten8662
    @coralkitten86624 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in a haunted trailer here. My hair was pulled out in my sleep, little girl’s stood by my bed. It was scary

  • @tomlehr861

    @tomlehr861

    4 жыл бұрын

    No way

  • @anthonyc8257
    @anthonyc82573 жыл бұрын

    Nothing looks like it goes on there

  • @1honeychild
    @1honeychild10 жыл бұрын

    1:15...That cat doe

  • @kilandgore1493
    @kilandgore14936 жыл бұрын

    Foods I live in salyersville vill Kentucky all those places I’ve been like a thousand times

  • @green3659

    @green3659

    5 жыл бұрын

    Kilandgore who are you I live here my name is tayte Hall

  • @agneso.4663
    @agneso.4663 Жыл бұрын

    I really need to get to Kentucky please assist

  • @twerktwerk9870
    @twerktwerk98709 жыл бұрын

    I live here...

  • @jocelyncantrell870

    @jocelyncantrell870

    7 жыл бұрын

    Twerk Twerk Me to

  • @mcky-zw4wn

    @mcky-zw4wn

    7 жыл бұрын

    Twerk Twerk me too

  • @1honeychild
    @1honeychild10 жыл бұрын

    0:13 Dat cat. I mean v

  • @firefightervic
    @firefightervic9 жыл бұрын

    Why do i live in new york city....? i should have been a cowboy.

  • @Lisa-yn5bb

    @Lisa-yn5bb

    9 жыл бұрын

    firemanvic Go to Texas then.

  • @meaganadams5815

    @meaganadams5815

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hope you don't like shopping or communicating with other people outside of church

  • @thedailycomplaining4861

    @thedailycomplaining4861

    5 жыл бұрын

    So work on a cow farm?