You know you live in a small town when..........

[IM4given]

My town, Wickliffe KY, is the county seat and is small as everything described here with the exception that the courthouse sits right square in the middle of it. The original courthouse was a log structure that burned down shortly after the Civil War when all of the county records were destroyed. This was a common occurance during the reconstruction period.

I lived 4 miles outside of town for nearly 20 years before I moved away. If home is where the heart is, my home will always be there.

Wickliffe, Kentucky Wickliffe, the seat of Ballard county, is located on the Mississippi River in the southwest of the county. It was founded in 1880 at the site of an earlier settlement and named for Col. Charles A. Wickliffe, legislator, Confederate officer, and nephew and namesake of Kentucky's fifteenth governor. Wickliffe replaced Blandville, the previous county seat, in 1882. The Wickliffe post office opened in 1879 after moving from its previous location at nearby Fort Jefferson. The population in 1990 was 851.

[John81]

Sounds like my kinda place Janet! :thumb

[5dumplings@home]

Wow, you've been to French Lick! Seriously, we didn't have a stop light until I was in college. The local sheriff used to bring my dog home in his patrol vehicle everytime he got loose.

The funniest thing is that when we moved back there from Arizona, the sheriff saw our out-of-state plates and pulled us over. The sheriff looked at my dad's license and said, "Breeden, hunh? Well, we don't take too kindly to Breedens out here." Mom and Dad looked at each other and rolled their eyes. The sheriff was a Breeden himself.

And, I am related to half the town!

Have a blessed day, everyone!
Jennifer

[John81]

Our black lab got loose one time and one of the local cops brought him home to us in his pick-up truck.

Growing up I had four sets of aunts/uncles and eight cousins living here in town along with my maternal grandparents.

Still no traffic lights but we do have a few more stop signs.

[canesnc5]

All of my family is from a town like this.

[sarcrew]

I once lived in Blair, OK (formerly Dot, OK - it was only a dot on the map). At that time we had: no lights - traffic or otherwise, no sidewalks, no police, 600 people, 1 barber shop, 1 bar, 6 churches, elementary school only - and no football or baseball teams (not enough players).

My favotire past times then - marbles, BB guns, playing in an ancient, abandoned cotton gin and waving at the engineers in the cabooses of the trains as they went by. Those were the days.


Wayne

edited to add : Saturday nights? What were those - I was a kid - we had to be in bed by 9.

[CJP56]

You know you live in a small town when you can ride your horse up to the restaurant on main street and get a hand dipped ice cream cone and then ride down to the grocery store on main street and get a TV Guide and not even get off the horse. Then you ride up and down main street on the side walks(sometimes in the middle of main street) eating your ice cream cone and reading the TV Guide. CJP56