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“15 Good Reasons” to Remember the Jones’ Kentucky Home Restaurant

“15 Good Reasons” to Remember the Jones’ Kentucky Home Restaurant Update: History Mystery Solved! By: Mary Annette (Jones) Wimsatt This story begins with three brothers, Robert, Tucker and Harry Hagan and William Edward “Bill” Jones who opened the first commercial dairy in Nelson County 1945: H and J Dairy.  Prior to that …

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Did you eat at the Jones’s?

Wyanda and Bill Jones owned and operated the Jones Family Restaurant in Bardstown, KY in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.  The couple and their fourteen, later fifteen, children advertised their restaurant with postcards showing the entire family and the slogan “15 good reasons for eating at Jones’ Restaurant.”  KHS staff …

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