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2016.pdf Golden Newsletter (1) 20 Years ago on Saturday.docx 2016 story (1) Read More

News Release April 9th – 11th An American Memoir Being Hosted at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park with Photo Read More

Cleudis Robbins wrote his debut novel with his daughter Janene E. Nielsen. Robbins was a child of the 1930s coal mining camps of southeastern Kentucky. The Burying Man is his love song to Appalachia. Read More

The Bell County Historical Society will be having there board meeting on Thursday March 24, 2016. The meeting will start at 7:00 pm. We are located at 207 N. 20th St. Middlesboro, KY 40965 for anyone who would like to come. Thank you. Read More

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Our book of the month is History & Families Bell County, Kentucky. The Bell County Historical Society has as one of its principal objectives the preservation and dissemination of information about the history and people of Bell County and the surrounding area. Read More

The Bell County Historical Society is seeking a director for the Bell County Historical Museum in Middlesboro, Kentucky. Duties include: Keeping the museum open and staffed during hours of operation; supervising a staff of two part-time employees and several volunteers;... Read More

2015 was another successful  year for the museum. We had a total of 595 visitors to the museum. In addition to the 595 visitors we all so had the joy of 91 first, second, and third graders from the elementary school. Halloween spooked us with well over 500 trick-or-treaters. It... Read More

Our book of the month for December is a beautiful journey by Lucille Carloftis. Lucille Bowling Carloftis takes you on a journey of adventure with feelling into a memoir, evolved from three different forms and styles of a business that has endured for over 50 years. her romantic... Read More

Did you know? Middlesboro once had a brewery.  Originally the Overbeck Brewing, it was a brewery, cold storage, and ice manufacturing plant. It was later the New South Brewery before being used by the Schneider Packing Plant in Cumberland Gap. The land was then absorbed into the... Read More