Speed Trap 

   This can be filed under better to be talked about than ignored. Besides, how many small towns get this kind of national attention from Time Magazine or the AAA club, and although this article makes clear we were not the last speed trap in America, it does appear we set the standard. 

Traffic: The Last Speed Trap?

Time Magazine Friday, Dec.2nd 1966

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,836596,00.html#ixzz0bFDJLQ3L

  Not since Bonnieville, Ky., shaped up in 1963 had the American Automobile Association pinned its "speed trap" label on a single U.S. town. So last June, tourist-conscious Floridians were understandably irked when the A.A.A. informed its 10 million members that the tiny town of Coleman (pop. 921), north of Tampa, had suddenly become the nation's biggest speed trap—in fact the only one.

  The A.A.A. had the goods on Coleman's one-man police force. Chief Ernest H. Barry, 64, had taken to lurking behind a billboard and pouncing on every unwitting out-of-towner who exceeded 15 m.p.h. In five months, Barry arrested 369 motorists, none of them Coleman citizens. Only half of each $15 take wound up in the town treasury; the other $7.50 was split among Mayor J. F. Crawford as the town judge ($2), the town clerk (500) and Chief Barry ($5).

Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnieville,_Kentucky

 Bonnieville was declared as one of the worst speed traps in America by the American Automobile Association in the early 1960s.

 In better days. This building was both a store and home to Arthur Jaggers, later to Giggs and Evelyn Jaggers and their son Leon. The small room on the left was a cream station and the large tree on the right was one of many that lined a quant lane the once held 4-5 small cabins built in the late forties to accommodate travelers on U.S. 31-W. That same lane originally ran up to the front of the Jameson House before the L&N railroad cut it in half.

  A very sad day for Bonnieville. The Historic Jameson House being dismantled April 1973

Postcard supplied by Wanda Gregory. Feb. 1 2010 

Earliest know postcard 

Information below was provided by Richard Reynolds of Bonnieville.   It was found between the pages of his mothers Bible. Article published April 28th. 1966.

  Have no information about this photo                  Above Photo provided By David Breeding

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 Do you known where it is today?

 Who owned this store at this time?

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 Pisgah Log School (aka The Gaddie Cabin)

Located 1.6 miles East of Bonnieville on Hwy 728 (Bacon Creek Rd), on the Farm of Herb and Wanda Key, you will find the Old Pisgah Log School.  This old log structure dates back to the late 1850’s. This may be the oldest building in our community.  This log cabin was responsible for the Key property being designated a Heritage Farm by the Kentucky Bicentennial Commission.

The Cabin was originally built as Pisgah School.  After the Civil War, a superintendent decided that log schools were no longer suitable for school buildings.  A new Pisgah School was built about a mile further East.  Note:  The new Pisgah School building has been gone for many years.  The old one still stands and continues to “teach” us history.

The Old Pisgah School became the home to 3 generations of the Gaddie Family.  Maxie Gaddie was the last to be born there and he lived there until his death in 1987.

 The Key Family of Bonnieville

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Bonnieville Grade School

8* Grade Graduation 1958 at Camp Ground Methodist Church

Front Row Seated

Carolyn Waldeck, Linda Hill, Joy Hawkins, Judy Grimsley, Deloris Reynolds, Herbert Key, Jr.,

Norman Wheeler, Unknown

Second Row

Teacher or Pastor unknown, Lester Butler, Jr., Larry Srygler, Jimmy Kessinger, Allen Martin,
Alta Miller,  Mary Ellen Hodges, Gloria Fleck, Teacher/Principle Garland Cottrell

Third Row

Houston Puckett, Balford Wheeler, Leroy Caps, Rodney Reynolds, J.W. Bevars,

Jimmy Cottrell, Freddy Hodges, Unknown

Photo provided by Eugene Kerr . Unsure of year.   Can you name any of the above? Contact/Join Us 

Mrs. Grace Crouch Bonnieville Elm. 3rd Grade class of ?     Can you help?

History from the Pine Ridge Community

 Also known as Dividing Ridge

  Beer/ Dance Hall on top of Pine Ridge year unknown; 

Proprietor

Own Carman, brother of Haynes Carman

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 Photo's and information provided by Brenda P. Bruton. The following is her account;

 The above picture is one of many gift shops the Pine Ridge Community once sported.  This one was located on old 31W which now lies beneath a section of Interstate 65.

 This "Era of Time" with Dennis' parents, (Leonard Bruton & Virginia Guess Bruton), Gift Shop as well as the Truck Stop (shown below), are now gone and this part of the history of the Bonnieville area remains now only in pictures and memory.

This gift shop was located on old 31-W and was ran by Bill Guess and his daughter Virginis Guess Bruton in the Pine Ridge Community.	These pictures are of the gift shop and truck stop that were on the present Highway 31-W which goes over Pine Ridge Hill

For more information, please see Fall 2009 Quarterly of the Hart County Historical Society