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shall extend one quarter of a mile in every direction from the center thereof at the crossroads at W. D. Latimer's storehouse." In 1880 (Laws of
Kentucky, Chapter 617), the boundary was modified so as to include the cemetery and the Christian church, "the line to run north and south with the on the east side of said cemetery."
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car. Freight was also shipped from this depot. A small lake, known as Tank Pond, was built in 1920 by the railroad southwest of town for the purpose of refilling steam locomotive engines. Harbison Lane crossed under the L&N Railroad until
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1. That the town, in the county of Boyle, situated on the Clark's Run and Salt River turnpike and the
Lebanon extension of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, known as Parksville, be, and the same is hereby, incorporated and established as the town of Parksville. ... 10. The limits of said town
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Today, Parksville has a post office, a general store which also sells sandwiches and gasoline (Operated for many years by the
Feather family), a Baptist Church (founded in 1923), a Church of Christ, a small sit-down restaurant, and another under renovation, a two-engine fire department, a volunteer
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Parksville is served by the Boyle County
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