Jonesville Research Resources

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Detail from Jonesville Buon Fresco Mural at the Kentucky Museum

 

The Museum created this centralized page to assist researchers in locating Jonesville information and research.

 

Jonesville

WKU’s website subtitled “Honoring Jonesville: Our People, Our Community, Our Legacy.” This website shares history about the Jonesville community and efforts the University is implementing to honor Jonesville families and descendants. Scroll down the page for the “Jonesville Timeline.”

                Resources

                     From WKU’s Jonesville webpage, the "Resources" tab has several links to videos, research and more.

 

What Happened to Jonesville?

This is a condensed version of the "What Happened to Jonesville?" poster exhibition. The full exhibition is available through our traveling exhibits program or may be on view at the African American Museum of Bowling Green. YouTube video presentation of exhibit.

 

Jonesville Buon Fresco Mural

Local artist Alice Gatewood Waddell and WKU professor and artist Mike Nichols collaborated on a buon fresco mural commemorating Bowling Green’s Jonesville community. This webpage features time lapse video of mural’s creation, video of the artist talk and more.

 

More Jonesville Resources

• Jonesville History Project created by WKU Honors students Catherine Rice, Chelsea Murray, and Emily Peck (Fall 2014).
• Jonesville: An Neighborhood in Bowling Green, Kentucky from Gordon Van Ness on Vimeo.
• The Jonesville Controversy paper written by Ali Wright as part of a History & the Internet class in Spring 2004. 
• Photographs and objects relating to Jonesville are in KenCat.
• Oral history interviews held by WKU Folklife Archives:
• Angela Townsend, a former resident of Jonesville, 2012.
• Records from the WKU Department of Library Special Collections include:
• Map of Jonesville land to be acquired by WKU, dated 1963. Other maps are available in TopScholar.
• A map of property owners, dated May 1963.
• Additional documents on the acquisition from President Kelly Thompson's correspondence.
• Dedication of the Historical Marker for Jonesville, including the program, 2001.
• Newspaper and other clippings regarding Jonesville. 
• "Jonesville" by Maxine Ray, part of the Landmark Report Vol 18, no. 3, 1999.
• "Blacks in Bowling Green" project by Mella Jena Davis, 1990.
• Newspaper clippings regarding the urban renewal in Jonesville, 1962 to 1965.