Burnside, Kentucky
Burnside's Seven Gables Hotel, circa 1915. A river and railroad town, Burnside lays claim to the first Boy Scouts of America troop, founded in 1908. Burnside relocated in the early 1950s, before the original town site was inundated by Wolf Creek Dam.
About this community
- River
- Cumberland River
- Established
- 1800
- Inundated
- 1951
The community that was displaced
- Displacement cost
- $8,567,671
- Property value
- $127,390
- Vocations
- farmer, fisherman, rancher
- Birthplaces
- local