6th Annual Preservation Week 2004 Photo-Essay Winners

Elementary (Grades 1-5)

First Place: Cameron Barton
Old Edmonton High School: -"The old Edmonton High School is a beautiful building that stands in the middle of our town of twelve hundred people. It was built in 1923 and has stood empty now for forty years."

Second Place: Tyler Ellis Knight
History on Highway 68: -"When people drive west on Highway 68 in Trigg County, just minutes from historic downtown Cadiz, they drive past an important part of my family's history."

Third Place: Ashley Booth
Bridgeport School: -"In the year 1960, the high school students moved out of Bridgeport to go over to Franklin County High school. This high school is still there and used today. So this is just left the middle and elementary students. Middle school went upstairs and elementary downstairs.

Middle School (Grades 6-8)

First Place: Christopher Bryant
A House that needs Life: -"This house may have been started in 1852 and finished in 1867. This was the start of Darrell B. Smith's Old Oaks Plantation. Smith was or may have been a riverboat captain; we know for sure that he owned horses. Smith lived his wife and 3 daughters in this home."

Second Place: Cassie Cooper
Historic Places at the Crossroads: - "The first link to the past is the age of the house. It was built in 1807 by John Smith. Just imagine, in 1807, Thomas Jefferson was the president of The United States. Kentucky had only been a state for fifteen years."

Third Place: Amy Erwin
The Marshall County Courthouse: -"The District and county offices, the jail, the courtroom, as well as the vault were there. The vault in the courthouse held the records and deeds. The "Big Singing" was the oldest musical tradition in the United States."

High School (Grades 9-12)

First Place: Katie Donohue
One of History's Hidden Treasures: -"I found this letter in the book, The Shryock Line, compiled by Mrs. W. Harvey Johnson, a descendant of the Shryock line. The letter went on to say how beautiful the house must have been in its time, and Miss Lowell marveled at how it still retained so much of its majesty."

Second Place: John Michael Jeffries
Historic Stone Row Greensburg, Kentucky: -" Standing steadfast on the town square, Old Stone Row watches over sleepy downtown Greensburg. Old Stone Row is collection of three separate buildings arranged in a row."

Third Place: John Sosbe
Historic Places at the Crossroads: -"This firm is one of the oldest and most distinguished in our small town. It is a third generation business that has been a starting place for many of Harrison County's most prominent lawyers and judges. The fine history of this firm is as rich as that of my home county. It is a story of family, love, feuds, and friendships that spans over a century."