The City of Manchester’s Tourism Committee traveled out in the country for its latest meeting. The meeting, which was combined with a potluck picnic, was held at the historic Old Joe Clark cabin on Little Sextons Creek in northern Clay County.
Joining the Tourism Committee was a contingent from the Clay County Genealogical and Historical Society that is working with the Committee to promote tourism in the county.
The venue was chosen to call attention to the recently restored Old Joe Clark cabin, a private project and labor of love by Clay County native Butch Weaver, whose family owns the property. (See number 15 on the Driving Tour map)
“Old” Joe Clark achieved notoriety during the Civil War as a member of Clay County’s Brigadier General T. T. Garrard’s Seventh Kentucky Infantry and, after the war, as a character to be reckoned with in the Sextons Creek Community. A song that chronicled some of his exploits became a favorite of American soldiers during World War I in France, and became famous in the U. S. as well. A historical marker at the site commemorates Clark and the song. He is buried on a hillside across the road from the cabin.
Attending the event were Mayor Carmen Lewis and daughter Bailey, M C and Mildred Edwards, Danny and Sharon Finley, John and Lyda Becknell, Jean Cobb, Fay Gregory, Betty and Ethan Allen, Mike and LaBerta White, Helen White and guests Lucile Carloftis and her daughter Carcille.
Joining the Tourism Committee was a contingent from the Clay County Genealogical and Historical Society that is working with the Committee to promote tourism in the county.
The venue was chosen to call attention to the recently restored Old Joe Clark cabin, a private project and labor of love by Clay County native Butch Weaver, whose family owns the property. (See number 15 on the Driving Tour map)
“Old” Joe Clark achieved notoriety during the Civil War as a member of Clay County’s Brigadier General T. T. Garrard’s Seventh Kentucky Infantry and, after the war, as a character to be reckoned with in the Sextons Creek Community. A song that chronicled some of his exploits became a favorite of American soldiers during World War I in France, and became famous in the U. S. as well. A historical marker at the site commemorates Clark and the song. He is buried on a hillside across the road from the cabin.
Attending the event were Mayor Carmen Lewis and daughter Bailey, M C and Mildred Edwards, Danny and Sharon Finley, John and Lyda Becknell, Jean Cobb, Fay Gregory, Betty and Ethan Allen, Mike and LaBerta White, Helen White and guests Lucile Carloftis and her daughter Carcille.
Tourism Committee and Historic Society
meet at Old Joe Clark Cabin to promote
tourism in Clay County
meet at Old Joe Clark Cabin to promote
tourism in Clay County
Among those attending were (from left to right) Mildred Edwards, Helen White, Danny Finley, LaBerta White, John Becknell (in wheel chair), Mike White, Mayor Carmen Lewis and daughter Bailey, Lyda Becknell, Lucile Carloftis' daughter, Carcille, Lucile Carloftis, Jean Cobb, Ethan Allen and M C Edwards.
