The Churchill Weavers Collection.
Churchill Weavers was started in 1922 by David Carroll and Eleanor Churchill in Berea, Kentucky. The company
produced luxury hand-woven fabrics such as throws, baby blankets, ties, wraps and commissioned art pieces.
In 1973, Lila and Richard Bellando bought the business from Mrs. Churchill. Churchill Weavers closed in 2007.
The collection includes museum artifacts such as looms, fabric samples, finished woven pieces, and designs, as
well as archival materials such as photographs, account ledgers, advertisement materials, business records and films.
The KHS staff is currently processing and cataloging the Churchill Weaves Collection. Please visit the KHS digital
collections often for new additions.
The Calk Collection.
On Monday, March 13, 1775, William Calk's party set out from Prince William
County, Virginia, on a great land speculation in the frontier of
"Caintuck." William Calk's account of his difficult journey has been
called the most colorful account to survive from the period. It is filled with
human-interest stories and personal commentary. The journal is part of the
remarkable Calk Collection, which includes manuscripts documenting the land
speculation, business transactions, and daily lives of several generations of
the Calk family, as well as objects used on his journey and on the Kentucky
frontier.
Legislative Moments of
Kentucky. Since the birth of the Commonwealth in 1792, actions taken by
the Kentucky General Assembly have provided a microcosm of the state's history.
Staff at the Kentucky Historical Society selected notable "moments in
Kentucky legislative history" from 1792 to the 1950s to illustrate the
myriad ways in which the legislature has shaped the Commonwealth's destiny. Each
moment is accompanied by an illustration from the collections of the Kentucky
Historical Society.
