Eastview Kentucky was founded in 1870. Located on the Illinois Central Railroad line it quickly began to prosper and grow. Eastview was thriving by producing large amounts of sand and sumac; it began to grow as no other Hardin County community had before the early 1900's.
Sometime around 1904 and Illinois Central train in route from Nashville to Chicago transporting ancient Egyptian artifacts that had just been unearthed in the Valley of Kings. The train wrecked just north of Eastview, the exact cargo was unknown since the records burned with the train and even the semi list later was lost to fire when the Grayson County Court house burned in the 1930's. What is known was that all on board the train perished in the accident, the cargo was never seen again.
After years of prosperity prior to the accident Eastview began to have a time of terrible misfortune. Just 1 week after the train accident a young nun lost her footing at the railroad bridge and fell to her death. Two days later a pair of twins swimming in a local pond drown. One week later the president of the Eastview Sumac Company was found dead after he cut his own throat. An Army captain while walking to the Post Office one night tripped broke his neck and died. A young woman from Virginia who had come
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