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Fort Knox Kentucky


We went & took a look at Fort Knox in Kentucky. The gold depository was what I wanted to see.


The Fort Knox gold is in that building

That's it....

We did go to New Albany, Indiana to tour the Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site. 





The Culbertson Mansion in New Albany Indiana

It's owned & operated by the state of Indiana and it was a great tour! 




We got to see the whole house including the places they were still restoring & the places that had not been touched.



Restoration work in progress
It can only be restored to what is under the old paint
or what it looked like if they had an old photo


The top floor with the wall still covered with
soot from heating with coal back in the day.

Children were seen but not heard and back then, they had some unusual ways to insure obedience..


The "time out room" for the kids


Before this room they locked the kids in a closet....



The door side of the "time out room"

Mr. 
Culbertson, who had the house built, made his money off wholesaling dry goods and he did really well. He built & supported an orphanage, a house for widows, the water purification plant  (after several of his kids died from water borne illnesses), and he built the bridge over the Ohio river where the rapids were, opening up the whole area.




Our tour guide really cared about the house, the history, the restoration & the restoration process. She was good!


Tall rooms!

Fort Knox was ok, we stayed at a military RV park for two nights then we headed north again. 


The next goal was up into Indiana, then into Ohio for a couple of stops.

On the way up we had a brief stop in Milroy, Indiana.

I wanted a picture with the town sign 
Rob Milroy, Milroy Indiana, June 2019

It's part of a collection 



The Milroys in Milroy, Minnesota, some time around
the turn of the century.
Dad, Aurora, Brandy, Gwendolyn (in front) and Ethan



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