Kentucky Oral History Commission
Interview Log
Name of Interviewee: Laban Park
DOB: 3/25/1891
Birthplace: Wagersville, Irvine, KY
Occupation: Teacher/farmer
Topics Discussed in Interview: Biographical information
Grandfather’s mill on Station Camp Creek
Wagersville
Schools around Wagersville
Normal School, Berea
Farming
Election clark
Politics
Flu
Comments on presidents
Oil drilling
Court day
Liquor sales
Electricity
Ravenna, KY
Churches
Grandfather
Wagersville in 1910
Tanbark
Rice (??) station
Railroad
Early teaching
1930 drought
Interviewer comments: “Mr. Park lives on the “thorne” farm settled by Asa Park,
his great-grandfather, in 1807. One of the first pioneer families. He taught in south Estill [County] in small schools around 1915-1925. A cat playing with tape reader interrupts the recording once or twice.”Places & Names Discussed: Gentry Park
Mary Catherine Congleton
Asa Park
Ebenezer
Spicy gentry
Colonel Treadway
David Gentry
Jonah Wagers
Turner & Sally Kelly
Moores
John Hadley Amerine
Congleton Brothers, Frankfort
Greenbriar
Reeves
Slickford
Barnes Mountain
R.W. Smith
Jim Scrivener
Rice Station
Spivey
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