Catlettsburg, Kentucky City of Catlettsburg, Kentucky Louisa Street in downtown Catlettsburg in 2007 Louisa Street in downtown Catlettsburg in 2007 Catlettsburg is a home rule-class town/city in and the governmental center of county of Boyd County, Kentucky, United States. The town/city population was 1,856 at the 2010 census.
Catlettsburg's history begins in the decades directly following the American Revolution, as many frontiersmen passed through the region on their trek along the Ohio River.
(The Kentucky Encyclopedia says the Catletts settled the region in 1798.) and Catletts resided at the locale until 1847.
Due to its locale along the route of the American frontier, the Catletts provided hospitality to such notable patrons as General Stonewall Jackson, Henry Clay, Felix Grundy, and future U.S.
This required the assembly of the barns bridge that crosses the Big Sandy River at Catlettsburg, which carries an average of 80 trains daily.
The Catlett House is still standing two hundred years later and has long been used as the "servants' quarters" of Beechmoor Place, a large home positioned on Walnut Street (U.S.
Culver bought the property from the Catlett heirs and assembled a large home of the Georgian style on the right of the Catletts' initial dwelling.
The Boyd County Courthouse in Catlettsburg, with a statue of John Milton Elliott The Catlett name is still used on a tributary to the Ohio River, Catlett's Creek, which follows Kentucky Route 168 for many miles west of the city.
Catlettsburg took in two close-by communities on its borders in the late 19th century: Hampton City to the south side and Sandy City to the north.
The spelling of the city's name was changed to Catlettsburg from the previous spelling of Catlett's Burg c.
The church building still serves the congregation of the Presbyterian church in Catlettsburg.
The Catlettsburg National Bank building used to sit at the corner of Center and Division/26th streets was listed on the National Register, but has been completed due to the structure being unstable.[when?] Beginning in the late 19th century and lasting until the early 1920s, Catlettsburg was the biggest hardwood timber market in the world due to its locale at the mouth of the Big Sandy River.
Due to the profitability of harvesting such hardwoods, most all virgin timber that existed for a several miles around Catlettsburg was felled amid that period.
It is the earliest known living tree of any breed inside the town/city limits and for many miles encircling the city.
Rail transit began to slowly replace the river's eminence as a mode of transit as the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O) barns began assembly of a bridge athwart the Big Sandy River linking Catlettsburg with Kenova, West Virginia in 1885.
The Chatteroi barns preceded the C & O by a several years as the first rail line to travel through Catlettsburg's town/city limits, as it followed the Big Sandy River north from the coal fields to Ashland.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railway assembled a passenger depot in Catlettsburg in 1906 and directed the facility for over 52 years until 1958 when passenger service was transferred to close-by Ashland.
After method the facility, C & O sold it to the town/city of Catlettsburg for $1.
At the turn of the 20th century, Catlettsburg was the biggest hardwood timber market in the world, due to its locale at the confluence of the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers.
Kilgore and Collier Funeral Home on Panola Street is the earliest company in Boyd County, with over 130 years of continual operation in the same location.
Its name was later changed to the Catlettsburg Development Club, then to Catlettsburg Main Street Association.
The flood wall and grass levees that surround downtown and most residentiary areas were constructed in 1951 to relieve the town/city of constant flood damage.
Longtime Catlettsburg lawyer, then the city's attorney James Adkins Sr.
A large portion of the town/city is positioned in a ten-year flood plain; Mr.
As it was much needed at the time, the initial assembly mandated the removal of over 500 residentiary homes, which reduced the city's populace by over 1,000 immediately.
The town/city has prospered in later years from its locale on two federal highway routes: U.S.
Since the inception of the Federal Highway fitness in 1926, both routes have gone through the town/city limits, first using surface streets and now a four-lane highway directly west of the downtown company district.
At the project's inception, Catlettsburg officials were concerned with future increased costs to the town/city for maintaining the former state roads.
They requested that Route 60 remain on its initial 1926 downtown route, also requesting that the old U.S.
Both wishes of the town/city were granted and U.S.
23 and follows it through the town/city limits to Ashland.
The topography of this town/city is a combination of flat territory along the rivers, then steep hillsides with modern cliffs to the edge of the town/city limits.
Many historic buildings can be found in the town/city limits, mostly dating from the mid-to-late 19th century.
The structural base of the city, mainly centered on the downtown area, was constructed amid the hardwood boom of the late 19th century and is of brick/stone, or hardwood construction.
60 in the 1970s and 1980s, the downtown company precinct received another decline in traffic when the Federal courthouse was relocated from downtown Catlettsburg to a new home in Ashland in 1985.
For 74 years, it had used the upper floors of the Catlettsburg postal service on 25th Street.
The populace inside the town/city limits has been in diminish since 1930, mainly due to "urban sprawl" syndrome found in older metros/cities athwart the U.S.
Most momentous housing assembly has occurred outside the town/city limits since that time.
The last annexation of territory area occurred in the 1970s, when 10 homes in the Brumfield Estates addition were took in into the city.
With little annexation into the town/city limits, and company expansion replacing many residentiary zones inside the city, a decline in populace has occurred.
Catlettsburg is positioned in the northeast corner of Kentucky at the confluence of the Ohio and Big Sandy rivers.
The two most momentous landmarks in Catlettsburg are the flood wall and the Catlettsburg Refinery.
Catlettsburg was completely inundated with water from this runoff, and what would later be called the 1937 Flood convinced Ashland, Ironton, Catlettsburg and Russell that they needed permanent flood protection.
Catlettsburg is home to the Catlettsburg Refinery, which is owned by Marathon Petroleum Corporation.
Partially assembled to assist the World War II industrialized accomplishment, the Catlettsburg Refinery is a landmark for what is generally known as the "Tri-State area," connecting Kentucky, West Virginia and Ohio.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2), of which 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2) is territory and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km2) (22.42%) is water.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 20.4% under the age of 18, 10.4% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 16.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The Catlettsburg Independent School precinct was consolidated with the Boyd County School District in 1974.
Until that time, the town/city had three elementary schools serving grades K-8 and one high school.
After the consolidation , the Catlettsburg High School campus, which was assembled in 1965, became Catlettsburg Junior High, serving grades 7-9.
At the close of the 1979 80 school year, Yost Elementary was closed and students were transferred to Hatfield, where a new school building replaced the former.
At the time of its method in 1980, Yost Elementary School was the earliest operating school building in the state of Kentucky and one of the earliest in the United States.
It was first constructed in 1894 as the Catlettsburg Public School and served all twelve grades for many years before becoming a undertaking school.
At the end of the 1992 93 school year, the junior high was consolidated with Summit Junior High (now Boyd County Middle School).
Since then, Catlettsburg Elementary has been the only school inside the town/city limits, and uses the ground of the former high school/jr.
The gymnasium of Catlettsburg Elementary was assembled many years before the school buildings that surround it.
The Catlettsburg High School was added onto it in 1965, and now serves as the elementary school's gymnasium, which hosts many civic affairs such as the Catlettsburg Miss Flame Pageant that feeds into the Miss Kentucky Pageant and Miss America system.
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