Oldham County featured in Frazier Museum exhibit

The Frazier Museum’s 120: Cool KY Counties exhibit features a story by Castle Terrance at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens and the song “Home” by roots singer Joan Shelley of Goshen.

The Oldham Era
Staff Report
March 13, 2024

Oldham County will be one of 120 Kentucky counties featured in a permanent exhibit on display at The Frazier Museum in Louisville, the museum announced.

120: Cool KY Counties is a new exhibit housed in the Cool Kentucky exhibition on the first floor of the museum. It consists of two touch screen maps of Kentucky: when you touch a county, you’re shown content — an interesting text story, a video, and a song by a local artis from that county. The content will continue to be expanded, according to a news release.

Features from Oldham County will be a story by Castle Terrance at Yew Dell Botanical Gardens and the song “Home” by roots singer Joan Shelley of Goshen.

The feature opened March 15. Admission is $14.

“The 120: Cool KY Counties exhibit is collecting hundreds of stories from across the Commonwealth—including histories, legends, and oral traditions curated at the local level,” senior director of engagement Casey Harden said.

Stories featured in the exhibit span a range of subjects, including the birthplace of Dollar General (Allen County), the first iron ore furnace west of the Alleghanies (Bath County), the only US city built inside a meteorite crate (Bell County), the 2023 Softball Pitcher of the Year (Carter County), the world’s largest apple pie (Casey County), a famed NASCAR mechanic (Edmonson County), the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 (Hardin County), a Hungarian mining co-op (Martin County), a Top Chef contestant (McCracken County), the town of Whoopflarea (Owsley County), the lost town of Creelsboro (Russell County), and Kentucky’s first woman State Bacteriologist (Warren County).