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Grigsby Creek was named for a family of Grigsbys, descendants of a Thomas Grigsby who was a fellow settler with "Danger Nick" Combs. [7] A Grigsby post office was established on 1904-10-05 by Cora Grigsby, slightly upstream from the creek mouth and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of the church. [7] The post office closed in 1933. [7]
Perry County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,473. [1] Its county seat is Hazard. [2] The county was founded in 1820. [3] Both the county and county seat are named for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, a naval hero in the War of 1812.
Hazard is a home rule-class city [5] in, and the county seat of, Perry County, Kentucky, United States. [6] The population was 5,263 at the 2020 census. [7] History
Josiah was born on November 25, 1832, to Jesse Combs (1798–1874) and Mary 'Polly' (Boling) Combs (1801–1875) of Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky.
70 buildings were destroyed, and 300 homes and 180 commercial and industrial buildings were damaged. [24] The bridge to Hazard Airport was swept away on 29 January, [25] and there was damage around Lothair, Airport Gardens, and Combs. [24] The total cost of the damage to Hazard was some US$84,500,000 (equivalent to $916,684,834 in 2023). [24]
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Lewis Eugene Grigsby was born June 22, 1867, in Winchester, Clark County, Kentucky. [1] He was a real estate investor , philanthropist and world traveler. He died in Los Angeles , California on February 4, 1932, at the age of 64.
The Mother Goose House is a bed and breakfast and monument in Hazard, Kentucky. In 1930, Hazard resident George Stacy took inspiration to build a home in the shape of a goose after his wife had skinned the body of one he had brought home for Thanksgiving. Construction started on the Mother Goose in 1935 and was completed in 1940.