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Neatsville, Kentucky

Leland Grant's store in Old Neatsville, shown just before it was transported to the nearby town of Pellyton in the mid-1960s. The town site displaced by Green River Lake Dam was actually the second location of Neatsville: the original town--nicknamed "Old, Old Neatsville"--was founded as a river port in the late 1800s, and moved after a flood devastated it sometime around 1910. Residents relocated their town a third time after USACE claimed Old Neatsville's land for Green River Lake. Because the community was unincorporated, residents did not receive relocation aid and had to rebuild their community on their own dime.