Appalachian Community Histories – Nepton, Fleming County: Railroad, Flour Mills, Fire, and the Rise of a Kentucky Town
In western Fleming County, where the railroad crosses near Johnson Creek between Flemingsburg and Ewing, there was once a small town with its own depot, flour mills, hotel, stores, churches, school, tobacco warehouse, livestock pens, post office, and bank. Trains stopped throughout the day, farmers brought grain and livestock in from the countryside, merchants conducted business beside the tracks, and a town of only a few hundred people became important enough for the Kentucky General Assembly to grant it a municipal charter.
That place was Nepton.
Today Nepton is an unincorporated community, easy to pass without realizing how much once stood around the railroad. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, however, it was one of the railroad communities that helped connect rural Fleming County to larger markets at Maysville, Lexington, Cincinnati, and beyond.
Its rise can be traced unusually well for a place of its size. Federal censuses, an 1884 county atlas, Kentucky laws, banking directories, court decisions, postal records, and contemporary newspaper accounts preserve pieces of a community that grew rapidly after the railroad arrived, reached its greatest prominence around the turn of the twentieth century, and then gradually lost many of the institutions that had once made it a town.
A Railroad Creates a Community
Nepton’s story begins with the railroad.
In 1869, the Maysville division of the Kentucky Central Railroad was completed through western Fleming County. A National Register of Historic Places study of the nearby Ben Johnson House specifically notes that the line passed through this part of the county that year. The same study even compares architectural details on the Johnson House with a commercial building in the nearby railroad community of Nepton, showing how quickly settlement and construction followed the tracks.
Nepton was not initially called Nepton. The Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer identifies the place as Elizaville Station, established along the Maysville and Lexington Railroad to serve nearby Elizaville. This was a common pattern in nineteenth-century Kentucky. A railroad did not necessarily run directly through an established village, so a station, warehouse, store, and collection of houses could grow along the tracks some distance away. In time, that railroad settlement could develop an identity entirely its own.
Later Fleming County histories say that land in the area belonged to a man named Patton before several settlers arrived around 1870. One version names Sam Maddox, F. J. Dillon, and A. G. Slicer as men who established a mill, store, and hotel. Another local account spells the first man’s surname Mattox rather than Maddox. The discrepancy is small but important, since the surviving secondary histories are not entirely consistent about some of Nepton’s earliest residents. The larger picture, however, is clear. A commercial settlement began developing beside the railroad during the years immediately after the line entered the county.
The railroad provided the reason for the town to exist. Grain could be milled and shipped. Livestock could be loaded into railcars. Coal, manufactured goods, mail, passengers, and news could move through a rural community at speeds that would have seemed extraordinary only a generation earlier.
Nepton was becoming more than a station.
How Nepton Got Its Name
The origin of the name Nepton is one of the most interesting parts of the community’s history, although the surviving accounts do not agree on every detail.
What they do agree upon is Penelope.
The Kentucky Atlas states that the station agent named the post office and community for his daughter Penelope. A 2024 Flemingsburg Gazette history identifies the man as Jas. Slicer and says Penelope was known as “Neppie.” A specialized postal-history study published in La Posta provides a different identification, naming railroad agent Thomas W. Slicer as the man who petitioned for the post office and submitted Nepton in memory of his daughter Neppie, or Penelope.
Without the original Post Office Department application, it is difficult to say with certainty which Slicer family member should receive credit. What can be established more securely is that the Nepton post office was established in 1881 and that the name was connected with a Slicer daughter named Penelope, commonly called Neppie.
The new name eventually displaced Elizaville Station. Nepton had become a community in its own right.
Nepton in the 1880s
One of the best surviving windows into early Nepton is J. M. Lathrop and J. H. Summers’ An Atlas of Bath & Fleming Counties, Ky., published by D. J. Lake & Company in 1884.
The atlas was based on actual surveys and included maps, property owners, businesses, population tables, and a patrons’ directory. Its census table places Nepton in Fleming County’s Elizaville Precinct and records 129 inhabitants in the village in 1880. Elizaville itself contained 148, while nearby Johnson’s Station had 100. Nepton was still small, but it was already substantial enough to appear separately in the county’s population statistics.
That population grew around a transportation economy. Local histories describe flour milling, a hotel, stores, a brick kiln, and residential construction. Bricks made locally were reportedly used in houses and in the Methodist church, demonstrating that Nepton’s economy was not based solely upon shipping agricultural products elsewhere. The community was producing and building for itself.
The railroad also placed Nepton within a larger regional network. It was one of several Fleming County communities whose fortunes were tied to rail transportation, along with Ewing, Johnson Junction, Hillsboro, Poplar Plains, and others. A later history of Fleming County’s railroads identifies Nepton specifically as one of the county’s railroad towns.
That distinction mattered. A rural crossroads might serve the farms immediately surrounding it. A railroad town could serve an entire section of the county.
Nepton Becomes an Incorporated Town
By the middle of the 1880s, Nepton had grown enough that residents sought the legal status of an incorporated town.
The Kentucky General Assembly approved “An act to incorporate the town of Nepton in Fleming county” in 1886. The act appears on page 717 of that year’s published session laws, making Nepton’s transition from railroad settlement to incorporated municipality a matter of official state record.
Incorporation was an important step for a community of Nepton’s size. It recognized that the settlement had developed beyond a cluster of private businesses and residences. The community now possessed a legal municipal identity and could govern local affairs under powers granted by the Commonwealth.
The timing also reveals how quickly Nepton had grown. The community that the 1880 census counted at only 129 people became an incorporated Kentucky town six years later.
Growth continued.
The federal census counted Nepton at 212 residents in 1890. By 1900 the population had reached 293, more than twice the figure recorded in the 1884 atlas from the 1880 census. The 1910 census later showed the pattern clearly, listing Nepton at 212 in 1890, 293 in 1900, and 235 in 1910.
The years around 1900 appear to have been Nepton’s high-water mark as an incorporated railroad town.
Mills, Merchants, and the Railroad Economy
The flour mill was one of the most important pieces of Nepton’s economy.
Milling made sense in a farming region connected directly to rail transportation. Local farmers could bring wheat and other grain into town, where it could be processed and then either sold locally or shipped by rail to larger markets. The concentration of agriculture, milling, storage, and transportation made communities such as Nepton commercial centers far beyond what their population totals might suggest.
A surviving 1896 Gazette account, summarized in later Fleming County reporting, described Nepton as having about 300 residents. J. W. Myall was listed as postmaster and general storekeeper. A. L. Slicer operated a flour mill, J. W. Slicer served as railroad and express agent, and J. H. Ryan worked as a cooper. The account also indicates that there were multiple flour mills operating in the community.
The occupations tell a story of their own.
A cooper manufactured or repaired barrels and other wooden containers needed for agricultural and commercial shipping. A railroad and express agent handled passengers, freight, packages, and communication with the railroad company. A mill transformed locally grown grain into a marketable product. A general store supplied surrounding farm families with goods that could increasingly arrive by rail.
Nepton therefore functioned as a point where the surrounding agricultural countryside met the national transportation system.
The importance of its milling history is substantial enough that historian Charles D. Hockensmith devoted an article to the subject, “The Nepton Flouring Mills and Its Successors at Nepton, Fleming County, Kentucky,” in the Fall 2023 issue of The Millstone, the journal of the Kentucky Old Mill Association.
Schools, Churches, and the Nepton Seminary Story
A town cannot be understood only through its businesses. Nepton also developed institutions intended to educate residents and bind the community together.
Local tradition places the beginning of Nepton Seminary around 1880 and describes it as a boarding school. The building would later be associated with several different uses, including education, banking, lodging, and residential purposes.
One often repeated Fleming County story says that Nepton Seminary moved to Wilmore and became Asbury College. That version should be treated cautiously.
Asbury University’s own history states that Methodist evangelist John Wesley Hughes founded the institution in Wilmore in 1890, originally as Kentucky Holiness College. An Asbury alumni history adds an especially interesting Nepton connection: a man identified there as Mr. Spicer offered Hughes a large brick building in Nepton if he would locate his new college there. Hughes declined the offer and chose Wilmore instead. In other words, Nepton appears to have been seriously considered as a possible location connected with the founding of Asbury, but the strongest institutional evidence does not support the simpler claim that Nepton Seminary itself moved to Wilmore and simply became Asbury College.
The distinction makes the story more interesting rather than less. For a brief moment, the future Asbury University might have been established in Fleming County.
Religion also played an important role in Nepton life. Local histories date the Methodist church to about 1880 and say it was dedicated two years later during a celebration that lasted several days. African American residents worshiped at Nepton First Baptist Church, while local tradition associates the church and nearby cemetery with land connected to a formerly enslaved man remembered as Timberleak. More documentation is needed to reconstruct that story fully, but it points toward an important part of Nepton’s history that deserves additional research in deeds, census schedules, church records, and Fleming County court books.
The Citizens Bank of Nepton
Perhaps nothing demonstrates Nepton’s turn-of-the-century confidence more clearly than the creation of its own bank.
A newspaper report dated April 16, 1907, preserved in later local history, announced the organization of the Citizens Bank of Nepton. J. W. Myall was named president, W. Y. Williams vice president, and R. G. Wilmot cashier. The institution reportedly began with $15,000 in capital.
National banking directories soon recognized Nepton as a commercial point. The 1909 Rand McNally Bankers Directory listed Nepton in Fleming County with a population of 293 and named G. P. McCartney in its commercial-lawyer listings. The January 1910 directory continued to recognize Nepton as a commercial location.
The bank also left behind an unusually detailed legal record.
In Sousley v. Citizens’ Bank of Nepton, decided by the Kentucky Court of Appeals in 1916, the court described an $800 promissory note executed by O. B. Sousley and his wife on November 7, 1910. The note was secured by a mortgage on a small tract containing both a residence and storehouse. The dispute eventually involved whether the mortgage had been properly acknowledged before a notary who was also the bank’s cashier and a stockholder.
The case is valuable beyond its legal issue. It brings Nepton’s commercial life unusually close. There was a local bank lending money, local real estate containing a residence and storehouse, business property being mortgaged, and people using the financial mechanisms that connected small-town commerce to the larger Kentucky economy.
For a community of fewer than 300 residents, having its own bank was a significant achievement.
The Great Fire of 1908
Then came one of the worst disasters in Nepton’s history.
According to a newspaper account dated June 29, 1908, later preserved in a local-history transcription, a fire broke out on a Sunday morning in the boiler room of the Nepton Flouring Mill.
The mill was no minor operation. The report described it as having a capacity of 75 barrels and stated that it had originally cost $28,000, with only $12,000 in insurance coverage. Flames spread through the commercial district and damaged several businesses associated with the railroad economy.
The Nepton Produce Company reportedly suffered an uninsured loss. W. C. Norwood’s barber and blacksmith operation was damaged. J. D. Sousley’s general store suffered losses, as did Harry Sousley’s lumber warehouse. J. W. Myall also sustained uninsured damage.
Even the railroad was hit.
The Louisville & Nashville passenger and freight depot was damaged or destroyed, along with freight. According to the account, the station itself had cost approximately $2,500 and was uninsured.
For a community the size of Nepton, such a fire was devastating. The businesses involved were not isolated enterprises. They formed a tightly connected economic system. The mill processed farm products. The produce company handled agricultural goods. The lumber warehouse supplied construction. The general store served residents. The depot moved passengers and freight.
A fire moving through several of them at once struck at the heart of the town.
Yet Nepton survived.
Historic photographs preserved in later local histories show a prosperous-looking community only a few years after the disaster, with the depot, bank building, warehouse, and Methodist church still forming a recognizable townscape beside the tracks.
Life at Nepton’s Peak
The surviving descriptions of early twentieth-century Nepton reveal a community that was busier than its population suggests.
Local histories remember a bank, flour mills, coal yards, tobacco warehouse, stores, post office, livestock shipping pens, millinery shop, churches, and depot. Cattle were loaded onto trains for shipment to Cincinnati and other markets. One account says eight trains passed through or stopped at Nepton each day.
Even allowing for the need to verify some of those details in original railroad timetables, they fit the larger documentary record. Nepton appears repeatedly in commercial directories, census reports, postal records, court cases, and railroad-related histories precisely because it was a functioning transportation center.
The population figures illustrate both its success and its limitations. Nepton reached 293 inhabitants in 1900, dropped to 235 by 1910, and then recovered somewhat to 260 in 1920. The 1920 federal census still treated it as an incorporated town.
A population of 260 may seem tiny by modern standards, but the number does not represent everyone who depended upon Nepton. Farm families living miles outside the municipal boundaries could use the town’s railroad station, stores, mills, post office, bank, and shipping facilities.
Nepton served a countryside much larger than itself.
The Bank Closes
The prosperity did not last indefinitely.
On July 8, 1915, the Citizens Bank of Nepton closed its doors. The surviving newspaper transcription stated that depositors would suffer no loss and attributed the closing to a scarcity of business. T. H. Talbert of Ewing was appointed to wind up the bank’s affairs.
That explanation is telling.
The bank did not disappear in a spectacular panic or robbery. It appears to have lost the volume of business necessary to justify an independent banking institution in such a small community.
By January 1920, Rand McNally’s Bankers Directory placed Nepton among towns without banks and directed its banking business to Ewing.
The change was more than the loss of one business. Banking represented Nepton’s position as an independent commercial center. Once residents and merchants had to go elsewhere for financial services, one of the forces pulling economic activity into the town had weakened.
The railroad still operated. The post office remained. People still lived and worked there. Nepton had not disappeared, but its era as a self-contained small commercial town had begun to fade.
The Fight Over Nepton’s School District
Another remarkable glimpse of community life comes from a 1930 Kentucky Court of Appeals decision, Palmer v. Elizaville Graded Common School District.
The dispute grew from efforts to connect the Nepton school district with the larger Elizaville graded school system. According to the court, Nepton’s common school subdistrict was unable to provide the level of education residents wanted, and its location and road connections made Elizaville the logical place for many students to attend school. For two years, the Fleming County Board of Education paid tuition so pupils from Nepton could attend the Elizaville graded school.
In 1924, a petition reportedly supported by more than 90 percent of Nepton’s legal voters sought to bring the Nepton district formally into the Elizaville system.
The legal problem was that Kentucky had already repealed the statutory procedure used to accomplish the annexation.
When Elizaville voters approved a $19,500 bond issue in 1930 for an additional school building, Nepton taxpayers challenged the taxes that would be imposed upon their property. The Kentucky Court of Appeals ultimately ruled that the earlier annexation had lacked legal authority and that taxes could not be collected from property in the Nepton subdistrict for the Elizaville graded district under that arrangement.
Behind the legal technicalities was a larger transformation taking place across rural Kentucky. Small local schools were increasingly giving way to consolidated educational systems serving wider geographic areas.
Nepton was losing another institution that had once helped define it as a separate town.
The Long Decline of a Railroad Town
Nepton’s decline was not the result of a single event.
The 1908 fire damaged its commercial core, but the town rebuilt. The bank closed in 1915, but the population increased again by 1920. The school system became increasingly tied to Elizaville, but families continued living in Nepton. The railroad still connected the community to the outside world.
What changed was the system that had created communities like Nepton in the first place.
Railroad towns thrived when passenger trains, freight depots, local mills, livestock pens, express offices, and small-town merchants were necessary links between farms and distant markets. As automobiles and trucks improved, roads became more important and railroads less central to everyday rural life. People could drive to Flemingsburg, Ewing, Maysville, or larger cities instead of relying upon the nearest railroad station.
Businesses consolidated. Local passenger service declined. Small mills faced competition from larger industrial operations. Banking concentrated in larger towns. Rural schools consolidated.
One by one, the reasons people had once needed to come into Nepton diminished.
The post office survived longer than many of the town’s other institutions. Postal records place its operation from 1881 until 1958, giving the name Nepton an official federal presence for more than three-quarters of a century.
When the post office finally closed, another connection to Nepton’s nineteenth-century origins disappeared.
What Remains of Nepton
Nepton eventually surrendered its incorporated status and today is identified as an unincorporated community. The Kentucky Atlas still places it about six miles west of Flemingsburg at the railroad crossing near Johnson Creek, but the Nepton of the railroad era survives more strongly in documents and memory than in a dense commercial streetscape.
Those documents make it possible to reconstruct something remarkable.
In 1880 there were 129 people in Nepton. Six years later the Kentucky legislature incorporated the town. By 1900, the population had climbed to 293. Around those residents stood flour mills, merchants, churches, a school, hotel, post office, depot, warehouses, livestock facilities, and eventually a bank. A railroad agent handled freight and express shipments. Farmers brought grain and cattle into town. Trains connected the little community with markets far beyond Fleming County.
Then came the 1908 fire, the bank closing in 1915, changes in education, the decline of railroad-centered commerce, and eventually the closing of the post office in 1958.
Nepton’s story is therefore not simply the story of a place that disappeared.
It is the story of how hundreds of small American towns were created during the railroad age. Tracks were laid through farmland. A depot appeared. A store opened beside it. A mill followed. Houses, churches, schools, warehouses, and hotels gathered nearby. Eventually a place that had barely existed a generation before possessed a name, a post office, a local government, and an identity.
Then transportation changed again.
For a few decades, however, Nepton was exactly where it needed to be. The railroad made a town out of a station, and for the farmers and families of western Fleming County, that little town beside the tracks became a doorway to the wider world.
Sources & Further Reading
Kentucky General Assembly. Acts Passed at the Session of the General Assembly for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Frankfort, KY, 1886. “An Act to Incorporate the Town of Nepton in Fleming County,” 717. https://books.google.com/books?id=okFNAQAAMAAJ
Lathrop, J. M., and J. H. Summers. An Atlas of Bath & Fleming Counties, Ky.: From Actual Surveys. Philadelphia: D. J. Lake & Co., 1884. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:An_atlas_of_Bath_%26_Fleming_Counties,_Ky._-_from_actual_surveys_by_J._M._Lathrop_and_J._H._Summers_(IA_atlasofbathflemi00djla).pdf
R. L. Polk & Co. Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1881–1882. Detroit: R. L. Polk & Co., 1881. Entry for Nepton, Fleming County. https://ldsgenealogy.com/KY/books/Kentucky-state-gazetteer-and-business-directory-1881-1882-Vol-III-pt-1-part-2.htm
United States Census Office. Report on Population of the United States at the Eleventh Census: 1890. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1895. Fleming County population tables. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1890/volume-1/1890a_v1-09.pdf
United States Census Bureau. Bulletin 25: Population of Kentucky by Counties and Minor Civil Divisions. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1900. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1900/bulletins/demographic/25-population-ky.pdf
United States Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910: Supplement for Kentucky. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1913. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/abstract/supplement-kentucky.pdf
United States Bureau of the Census. Fourteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1920: Population, Kentucky. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1921. https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1920/bulletins/demographics/population-ky-number-of-inhabitants.pdf
United States Census Bureau. “Historical Census Records and Population Schedules.” Washington, DC. https://www.census.gov/history/www/genealogy/decennial_census_records/
Rand McNally Bankers Directory. January 1910. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. Entries for Citizens Bank of Nepton and Fleming County. FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/rmbd/rmbd_191001_04_kansas.pdf
Rand McNally Bankers Directory. January 1910. “Commercial Lawyers.” Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. Entry for Nepton, Kentucky. FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/files/docs/publications/rmbd/rmbd_191001_11_commerciallawyers.pdf
Rand McNally Bankers Directory. July 1915. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. Commercial listings for Nepton. FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/rand-mcnally-bankers-directory-105/july-1915-600418/content/fulltext/rmbd_191507_11_attorneys
Rand McNally Bankers Directory. January 1920. “Towns Without Banks.” Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. Entry for Nepton, directing banking business to Ewing. FRASER, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/rand-mcnally-bankers-directory-105/january-1920-579676/content/fulltext/rmbd_192001_14_towns
Sousley v. Citizens’ Bank of Nepton, 168 Ky. 150, 181 S.W. 960. Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1916. https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/sousley-v-citizens-bank-901847803
Palmer v. Elizaville Graded Common School District, 235 Ky. 75, 29 S.W.2d 648. Kentucky Court of Appeals, 1930. https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/palmer-v-elizaville-graded-common-school-district-kyctapphigh-1930
“The Post Offices of Fleming County.” La Posta: A Journal of American Postal History 29, no. 2 (May 1998). https://www.lapostapub.com/Backissues/LP29-2.pdf
Hockensmith, Charles D. “The Nepton Flouring Mills and Its Successors at Nepton, Fleming County, Kentucky.” The Millstone: Journal of the Kentucky Old Mill Association 22, no. 2 (Fall 2023): 20. https://kentuckyoldmills.org/html/publications.html
Fleming County Chamber of Commerce. A Bicentennial History of Fleming County in Pictures. Flemingsburg, KY: Fleming County Chamber of Commerce, 1992.
Fleming County Clerk. “Records.” Flemingsburg, KY. Deeds, mortgages, wills, corporation records, and other Fleming County documents dating from the county’s early history. https://fleming.countyclerk.us/records/
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. “Kentucky State Archives Microfilm Guide.” Frankfort, KY. https://microfilm.ky.gov/
Fleming County Public Library. “Genealogy Collection.” Flemingsburg, KY. Local newspapers, genealogy materials, books, microfilm, and family records. https://www.flemingcountypubliclibrary.org/genealogy-collection
University of Kentucky Libraries. “Genealogy: Newspapers.” Lexington, KY. Guide to Kentucky historical newspaper holdings and microfilm. https://libguides.uky.edu/genealogy/newspapers
University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections. “Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company Records.” Louisville, KY. https://library.louisville.edu/archives/railroad-collections/rr
United States Geological Survey. Elizaville, Kentucky Quadrangle. Surveyed 1952; published 1953. Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey. https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/topoview/
National Park Service. “Ben Johnson House.” National Register of Historic Places Registration Form. Fleming County, Kentucky. Includes historical context for the Kentucky Central Railroad and nearby Nepton. https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/7a4582dd-f8e0-4c64-95fa-9d7f2f0f8f52
Kentucky Heritage Council. Survey of Historic Sites in Kentucky: Fleming County. Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Heritage Commission. https://heritage.ky.gov/
Library of Congress. “Chronicling America: U.S. Newspaper Directory.” Washington, DC. Useful for identifying surviving Fleming County newspapers and institutional holdings. https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
Flemingsburg Gazette. “Since 1880.” August 7, 2024. Historical account of Nepton drawing on earlier Fleming County newspapers and local records. https://kypublicnotice.com/KYLegals/2024/70144-2024-08-07_1003.pdf
“The Noteworthy History of a Small Town Called Nepton.” Around Town, May 10, 2018. Includes historical photographs and transcriptions of reports concerning the Citizens Bank, Nepton depot, and 1908 fire. https://aroundtown-news.wixsite.com/newspaper/single-post/2018/05/10/the-noteworthy-history-of-a-small-town-called-nepton
“Fleming County: Riding the Rails of History.” Ledger Independent. Maysville, KY. Historical discussion of Fleming County railroad communities and Nepton Seminary. https://www.maysville-online.com/features/122504/fleming-county-riding-the-rails-of-history
Kentucky Atlas and Gazetteer. “Nepton, Kentucky.” Accessed October 17, 2026. https://www.kyatlas.com/ky-nepton.html
Asbury University. “History.” Wilmore, KY. Institutional history of the university’s founding in 1890. https://www.asbury.edu/about/history-2/
Asbury College. Ambassador 17, no. 2 (1990). Historical account concerning John Wesley Hughes and the offer of a building at Nepton before the establishment of the college at Wilmore. Kentucky Digital Library. https://kdl.kyvl.org/digital/collection/asbury-al/id/205/
Jim Forte Postal History. “Kentucky Postal History.” Catalog records for surviving Nepton postal covers and postmarks. https://www.postalhistory.com/
Author Note: Nepton’s history shows how the railroad could transform a small rural station into a surprisingly active town of mills, merchants, schools, churches, and banking. If you have photographs, family records, railroad documents, or memories connected with Nepton, I hope you will help preserve more of this Fleming County community’s story.