Bluegrass Heritage Museum Winchester, KY


		Welcome to the Bluegrass Heritage Museum

	Open Monday through Friday from 12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m. Saturday 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm Admission Adults $5.00, Children 6 to 18 $2.00; Seniors $2.00

Explore the rich heritage of Central Kentucky with a visit to our museum. Changing exhibits and a newly renovated building complete with an elevator make our museum accessible to all.

			Sandy Stults, Museum Director


	Remembering Julie Morgan


	Visitors to the Museum will miss the smiling face of Julie Morgan as she greeted visitors. Julie passed away peacefully on April 16, 2026, in Lexington, Kentucky surrounded by her children.

	*A memorial gathering will be held at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum, 217 South Main Street, Winchester, on June 7, 2:00-4:00 p.m. to remember her life. Friends are welcome.*

	Julia Anna (Treon) Morgan, born in 1953 in Kettering, Ohio, died peacefully on April 16, 2026, in Lexington, Kentucky surrounded by her children. Julia is survived by her brother Chris; her children John, Zach, Sam, Mark, and Sara; and eight grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, John Lynn Morgan and her granddaughter Gwynyth Morgan. She was buried in a private ceremony on April 19, beside her husband John at the Hardy Bottom Cemetery in Leslie County, Kentucky. After growing up in Kettering, Ohio, Julia obtained her bachelor’s degree and master’s in education at Georgetown College, where she and John met. John and Julia were married in 1976 and soon settled in Winchester. She taught at Odell Gross Elementary in the 1980s. She left public education to homeschool her own children from 1988 to 2009, during which time she was active in her church and local homeschool support group.




		Julie Morgan 1953 - 2026

Julia devoted her life to the care of her family, and took great pride in her children and grandchildren. She was a devoted follower of Jesus, and read her Bible through every year. Her favorite time each day was the quiet morning hour on her porch with coffee and the Bible. She was employed for the later part of her life at the Bluegrass Heritage Museum in Winchester, where she welcomed local and out-of-town visitors, and cared for the legacy and history of Clark County and the old Guerrant Clinic buildings.

Julia’s friends all knew her as a sympathetic listener and a helping hand. Throughout her life she supported countless friends and family members through their time of need by cooking meals, cleaning, running errands, and serving as a birth doula and as a death doula.




	Visit our companion website www.winchesterblackhistoryandheritagecommittee.org


	Our Website Examines Winchester’s First Newspaper and it’s Successors.



			Information provided by Harry Enoch


		Kathryn Owen Genealogy

	Check out our new online genealogy section. The museum received thousands of letters and documents from the estate of genealogist and Winchester native Kathryn Owen. This information will be added to the website one section at a time. So follow our progress and check out your family information. Click here


		New Article transcribed by Harry Enoch Brief History of the Clark County Negro

	The author, William Webb Banks (1862-1928), was the long-time editor of the Colored Column in the Winchester News and later in the Winchester Sun.

This article is now available in our Black History Section. Click here to read the article


	The Photos of Robert Lewis Adams

		Robert Lewis Adams was a studio photographer from Winchester, KY before entering the Marines during World War II. The museum has obtained a collection of Adams photographs. We are in hopes that our viewers might be able to identify some of these photos of Marines taken on Emirau Island in the Pacific. His job was to take aerial photographs for bomb damage assessment. But while on the island, Louie took numerous photos of his fellow soldiers, equipment, airplanes, and island inhabitants. See the photos.

Added Sections to our website


	Online Documents - Now Available


	New Document about The Bush Family Graveyard - Read Now


	Visit Our Online Book Store


	Kevin Palmer named Museum Living History Coordinator


	*A look at the Quilts in the Bean Collection*






		THE BLUEGRASS HERITAGE MUSEUM seeks to bring the history of Central Kentucky to life by collecting, preserving, interpreting and exhibiting the material culture of the region known as the Bluegrass. Located in a signature Romanesque Revival building on South Main Street in Winchester, the museum examines the history of the Bluegrass from European contact with Native Americans to the present.


	*Your donation helps support The Bluegrass Heritage Museum*

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