Logan County Time Capsule opened after 50 years

RUSSELLVILLE, Ky. – Residents of Logan County gathered at the old Logan County Courthouse today to see items stored in a time capsule for 50 years.

Some of the items included photos, clothing, records and even a couple pieces of jewelry that were all placed in a large steel or iron box. Unfortunately, the box’s seal wore out over the years, and most of the items were in varying degrees of damage, or as executive director of the Logan County Chamber of Commerce Polly Steenberger put it, disintegration.

“Upon opening it, we were a little discouraged to find that a lot of things have kind of disintegrated over the years. However, we were able to recover a lot of really cool items or things that we could at least tell what they were,” Steenberger said.