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Johnson County Schools also operates three schools within the city of Paintsville: ]Johnson Central High School
Johnson Central High School is a public secondary school located at 257 North Mayo Trail on the northwest side of Paintsville, Kentucky, United States. The school serves as the Johnson County School District's consolidated high school.
As of ...
, Johnson County Middle School (Kentucky)
The Johnson County School District is a public school district located in Johnson County, Kentucky. The district operates nine schools and has a total enrollment of 3,701. The Johnson County Board of Education is located in Paintsville. , and Central Elementary School. Johnson County is also well known for its academics. Johnson Central High School has won five international Future Problem Solving
Future Problem Solving Program International (FPSPI), originally known as Future Problem Solving Program (FPSP), and often abbreviated to FPS, is a non-profit educational program that organizes academic competitions in which students apply critic ...
titles while the middle school has won 10 Governor's Cup state titles along with three international FPS titles.
Our Lady of the Mountains School is a private institution operated by the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington.
Big Sandy Community and Technical College
Big Sandy Community and Technical College (BSCTC) is a public community college with its headquarters in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. It is part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. It was created in 2003 from the consolidation o ...
operates a campus in Paintsville that offers two-year degrees in various fields of study.
Paintsville has a lending library
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, the Johnson County Public Library.
Culture
Festivals
The Kentucky Apple Festival
The Kentucky Apple Festival is an annual festival held in Paintsville, Kentucky during the first Friday and Saturday in October. The festival was originally created in 1962 as a way to provide a market for the county's apple production. During 202 ...
has been held in Paintsville annually since 1962. Events include live music, carnival rides, a pageant, various competitions, a parade, and a car show. The festival occurs annually on the first full weekend in October.
The Awaken Conference, an annual Christian concert event attracting thousands of people to the area, is held each July in the city.
Paintsville also holds a Spring Fling on Main Street in May.
Museums and historical sites
The U.S. 23 County Music Highway Museum gives information on the country music entertainers who grew up near U.S. 23
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U.S. Route 23 or U.S. Highway 23 (US 23) is a major north–south U.S. Highway between Jacksonville, Florida, and Mackinaw City, Michigan. It is an original 1926 route which originally reached only as far south as Portsmouth, Ohio, and has sinc ...
in Eastern Kentucky. Country music entertainers profiled in the museum include Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn (; April 14, 1932 – October 4, 2022) was an American country music singer and songwriter. In a career spanning six decades, Lynn released multiple gold albums. She had numerous hits such as " You Ain't Woman Enough (To Take My M ...
, Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb; January 9, 1951) is an American country music singer widely known for her 1977 hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". Initially, Gayle's management and record label were the same as that of her oldest sist ...
, and Hylo Brown
Hylo Brown (April 20, 1922 – January 17, 2003) was an American bluegrass and country music singer, guitarist and bass player.
Biography
Frank "Hylo" Brown, Jr. was born in River, Johnson County, Kentucky, United States, and began his caree ...
.
The historic Mayo Mansion
Mayo Mansion is a historic mansion at 405 Third Street in Paintsville, Kentucky. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1974, as John C.C. Mayo Mansion and Office. The mansion is currently occupied by Our Lady of th ...
was built for John C. C. Mayo between 1905 and 1912. It now serves as Our Lady of the Mountains School.
The Mayo Memorial United Methodist Church was designed by one hundred Italian masons hired by John C. C. Mayo. It has several stained glass windows and has a pipe organ donated by Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie (, ; November 25, 1835August 11, 1919) was a Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and became one of the richest Americans i ...
. The first church service was in the fall of 1909.
Recreation
The Paintsville Country Club includes an 18-hole golf course
A golf course is the grounds on which the sport of golf is played. It consists of a series of holes, each consisting of a tee box, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a cylindrical hole in the ground, known as a "cup". Th ...
established on September 27, 1929, making it one of the oldest golf courses in Eastern Kentucky
Eastern may refer to:
Transportation
*China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai
* Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways
* Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 1926 to 1991
* Eastern Air ...
. The country club
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was built in 1930 by the WPA
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Computing
*Wi-Fi Protected Access, a wireless encryption standard
*Windows Product Activation, in Microsoft software licensing
* Wireless Public Alerting (Alert Ready), emergency alerts over LTE in Canada
* Windows Performance An ...
and is on the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
.[Powell, Helen January 26, 1989. Retrieved February 26, 2010]
The Paintsville Recreation Center contains a volleyball court, a basketball court, a walking track, and a playground. There is also a small community garden on site.
Media
The '' Paintsville Herald'' is a semi-weekly newspaper printed on Wednesday and Friday with a circulation of about 5,200 copies. The newspaper serves Paintsville and the surrounding area.
Healthcare
Paintsville ARH Hospital- Formally known as Paul B. hall Regional Medical Center is a full-service hospital providing healthcare to the region. It has a full-service emergency room with a pediatric trauma room, a hyperbaric oxygen chamber, a special birthing room, and full service surgical services, including a daVinci Si robotic system providing state-of-the-art laparoscopic surgery for the greater Paintsville region.
Transportation
Roads
U.S. Route 23
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U.S. Route 23 or U.S. Highway 23 (US 23) is a major north–south U.S. Highway between Jacksonville, Florida, and Mackinaw City, Michigan. It is an original 1926 route which originally reached only as far south as Portsmouth, Ohio, and has sinc ...
serves as the bypass for Paintsville. The four-lane divided highway
A dual carriageway ( BE) or divided highway ( AE) is a class of highway with carriageways for traffic travelling in opposite directions separated by a central reservation (BrE) or median (AmE). Roads with two or more carriageways which are ...
links Paintsville to Interstate 64
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to the north and U.S. Route 119
U.S. Route 119 (US 119) is a spur of US 19. It is a north–south route (on a northeast-southwest alignment) that was an original United States highway of 1926. It is Corridor G of the Appalachian Development Highway System (ADHS) east of US ...
and Kentucky Route 80
Kentucky Route 80 (KY 80) is a state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky. The route originates on the state's western border at Columbus in Hickman County and stretches across the southern portion of the state, ...
to the south. U.S. Route 460
U.S. Route 460 (US 460) is a spur route of U.S. Route 60. It currently runs for 655 miles (1,054 km) from Norfolk, Virginia, at its parent route U.S. Route 60 at Ocean View to Frankfort, Kentucky, intersecting its parent route once ...
links Paintsville to the Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway
The Bert T. Combs Mountain Parkway, commonly known as the Mountain Parkway, is a freeway in eastern Kentucky. The route runs from Interstate 64 just east of Winchester, Kentucky, Winchester southeast for 75.627 miles (121.710 km) to a jun ...
in Salyersville. Kentucky Route 40
Kentucky Route 40 (KY 40) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The highway begins at an intersection with US 460/ KY 7 in Salyersville, within Magoffin County, then continues eastward through Paintsville, within ...
forms both Euclid Avenue and Third Street in Paintsville. It links the city to Inez and also serves as an alternative route to Salyersville. Kentucky Route 321
Kentucky Route 321 (KY 321) originates at a junction with U.S. Highway 23 north of Paintsville, Kentucky in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The route continues through Johnson County to terminate at KY 1428 in Prestonsburg in Floyd Cou ...
, locally known as South Mayo Trail, serves as the city's main business route and passes through Mayo Plaza.
Air
Located southeast of Paintsville in neighboring Martin County is Big Sandy Regional Airport
Big Sandy Regional Airport (, former FAA LID: K22) is a public use airport in southwest Martin County, Kentucky. The airport is ten miles (17 km) northeast of Prestonsburg, a city in Floyd County.
Facilities
The airport covers at an elev ...
. The publicly owned, private-use airport is used for general aviation. Its main runway is 5,000 ft (1,524 m) long.[ Retrieved January 6, 2013]
The nearest airport that provides commercial aviation services is Tri-State Airport
Tri-State Airport (Milton J. Ferguson Field) is a public airport in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States, three miles south of Huntington, West Virginia, near Ceredo and Kenova. Owned by the Tri-State Airport Authority, it serves Huntingt ...
, northeast in Ceredo, West Virginia
Ceredo is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Ohio River. The population was 1,450 at the 2010 census. Ceredo is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 200 ...
.
Popular culture
* The majority of the 1983 film ''Kentucky Woman
"Kentucky Woman" is a 1967 song written and originally recorded by Neil Diamond.
Background
Diamond recorded "Kentucky Woman" as his last hit single for Bang Records. The song was mixed in monophonic, which is the common version heard on all Nei ...
'' was filmed in Paintsville.
* Paintsville was one of the three filming locations for the 2010 drama film, ''Passenger Pigeons
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''.
Notable people
* Willie Blair
William Allen Blair (born December 18, 1965) is an American former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball and current pitching coach for the West Michigan Whitecaps.
Playing career
Blair played baseball for Morehead State University bef ...
, pitcher
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in Major League Baseball
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1990–2001
* Tyler Childers
Timothy Tyler Childers (born June 21, 1991) is an American singer and songwriter. His music is a mix of neotraditional country, bluegrass, and folk. He released his breakthrough album ''Purgatory'' in August 2017. Childers has released five stu ...
, country
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, bluegrass, and rock musician
* Jim Ford
James Henry Ford (August 23, 1941 – November 18, 2007) was an American singer-songwriter originally from Johnson County, Kentucky. After living in New Orleans, Ford moved to Los Angeles, and finally settled in Fort Bragg, California. His ...
, singer-songwriter; born in Paintsville
* Jim Fyffe, sportscaster and radio talk-show host
* Crystal Gayle
Crystal Gayle (born Brenda Gail Webb; January 9, 1951) is an American country music singer widely known for her 1977 hit "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue". Initially, Gayle's management and record label were the same as that of her oldest sist ...
, country music
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singer and recording artist; born in Paintsville in 1951 (Older sister Loretta Lynn was born in nearby Butcher Hollow/Van Lear in 1932)
* Andrew Jackson Kirk, U.S. Representative
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from Kentucky
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* Johnnie LeMaster
Johnnie Lee LeMaster (born June 19, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball infielder. He played for four teams over a 12 year (– and ) MLB career, including 10 seasons with the San Francisco Giants. He batted and threw right-handed.
Career
On ...
, Major League Baseball player (San Francisco Giants
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, Cleveland Indians
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, Pittsburgh Pirates
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); resides in Paintsville
* John C. C. Mayo, entrepreneur
* Wendell H. Meade
Wendell Howes Meade (January 18, 1912 – June 2, 1986) was an American attorney and politician who served as a Republican Party (United States), Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky's 7th Congressional Dist ...
, Republican
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Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
member of U.S. House of Representatives
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1947–49; born in Paintsville
* John Pelphrey
John Leslie Pelphrey (born July 18, 1968) is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach of the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles. After being named Kentucky Mr. Basketball in 1987, he became a star college player at the University ...
, Kentucky "Mr. Basketball" of 1987, one of four University of Kentucky
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basketball
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players dubbed "The Unforgettables"; former Arkansas
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head coach
* Venus Ramey
Venus Ramey Murphy (September 26, 1924 – June 17, 2017) was an American beauty pageant contestant, and later an activist. She won the Miss America competition in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on September 9, 1944.
Early life
Ramey was born in S ...
, Miss America 1944; grew up in Paintsville
* Ovie Scurlock
Ovie Scurlock (November 11, 1918 – June 14, 2016) was an American jockey in Thoroughbred horse racing.
Born in Paintsville, Kentucky, Scurlock began his professional riding career in 1938 at Fairmount Park Racetrack in Collinsville, Illinoi ...
, born in Paintsville on November 11, 1918, former jockey in horse racing
* Benjamin F. Stapleton, Mayor of Denver
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, Colorado 1923–1931 and 1935–1947, born in Paintsville
* Chris Stapleton
Christopher Alvin Stapleton (born April 15, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in Staffordsville, Kentucky. In 2001, Stapleton moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to ...
, country
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, bluegrass, rock musician signed to Universal Music Group Nashville
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; attended Johnson Central High School in Paintsville
* Richard Scott Thomas, born in Paintsville on December 3, 1925, dancer, educator, co-founder of New York School of Ballet; father of Richard Earl Thomas, actor best known for role as John-Boy Walton in CBS
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drama ''The Waltons
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''[Dunning, Jennifer]
"Richard S. Thomas, City Ballet Soloist, and Teacher, Dies at 87,"
''The New York Times''. August 4, 2013. Retrieved May 27, 2014.
See also
* Johnson County, Kentucky
Johnson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,680. Its county seat is Paintsville. The county was formed in 1843 and named for Richard Mentor Johnson, War of 1812 general, Unite ...
* Paul B. Hall Regional Medical Center
Paintsville ARH Hospital is a 72-bed medical facility in Paintsville, Kentucky. The hospital serves nearly 45,000 people from five counties.
History
Paintsville ARH Hospital is the modern heir to a medical legacy which began in Paintsville, Kent ...
* Citizens National Bank
* Paintsville High School
Paintsville High School is a secondary-level school located in Paintsville, Johnson County, Kentucky and is part of the Paintsville Independent School District. Its student enrollment as of 2015–16 school year was 224 in grades 7 through 12. T ...
* Johnson Central High School
Johnson Central High School is a public secondary school located at 257 North Mayo Trail on the northwest side of Paintsville, Kentucky, United States. The school serves as the Johnson County School District's consolidated high school.
As of ...
* U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum
The U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum is a museum in Paintsville, Kentucky dedicated to the country music entertainers who were born or lived near U.S. Route 23 in eastern Kentucky. Entertainers exhibited within the museum include Billy Ray Cy ...
* Francis M. Stafford House
References
External links
City of Paintsville
Weather Forecast for Paintsville
Paintsville/Johnson County Chamber of Commerce
Paintsville Tourism
Paintsville Independent Schools
Johnson County Public Schools
The Paintsville Herald
Kentucky Apple Festival
Paintsville Golf Course
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Cities in Johnson County, Kentucky
Cities in Kentucky
County seats in Kentucky
Populated places established in 1834
1834 establishments in Kentucky