Behen, Lafe Johnson, 1881-1971 (SC 3715)

Authors

Manuscripts & Folklife Archives, Western Kentucky UniversityFollow

Publication Date

1-29-2024

Comments

This collection is archived in Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University: 270-745-6434; mssfa@wku.edu

Abstract

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3715. Letter, 5 April 1941, to Gayle Carver at the Kentucky Museum, WKU, from L. J. Behen, Clerk of the City of Cloverport, Kentucky. He describes two defunct nineteenth-century railway lines constructed from Cloverport for the transport of cannel coal, and suggests items for the Museum such as pieces of the rails and novelty items cut from the coal. He also makes known the location of other artifacts, namely the bed in which Jefferson Davis was born, and an Aeolian piano.

Disciplines

United States History

Recommended Citation

Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Behen, Lafe Johnson, 1881-1971 (SC 3715)" (2024). MSS Finding Aids. Paper 5116.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/5116