Lamb is an unincorporated community located 1/2 mi. south of the Monroe-Barren County boundary line on Kentucky Route 249, and centered at its intersection with New Design Road and Jack Hunt Road, in Monroe County, Kentucky, United States.

Lamb
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 36°45′31″N 85°53′57″W
Country	United States
State	Kentucky
County	Monroe
Elevation	919 ft (280 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP codes	42167, 42133
GNIS feature ID	508421[1]

History

According to U. S. postal records in the National Archives, a post office for this community was first established, November 18, 1892, with Joseph F. Turner as postmaster but discontinued the following year, September 15, 1893. Dry goods merchant Cornelius W. Jones[2] was the first postmaster of a second post office established, January 22, 1900, which was discontinued in 1915. A third post office was established here, November 19, 1925, in Lamb general store #1 with Robert Fred Johnson as storekeeper and postmaster.[3] Robert Fred Johnson was the grandson of Nathaniel Johns[t]on (1827-1873) and Jemima (Pare) Johns[t]on of Pikesville, nearby.[4] Lamb general store #1 and post office was a wooden frame building that faced New Design Road, located behind the site of store #2. Store #1 was replaced by Lamb general store #2 and post office, a concrete block building (see photo) that faced Kentucky Route 249, built by Erskine Johnson about 1958. [5]

Subsequent postmasters, Della Johnson, Erskine Johnson, Pearl Johnson, and Oleta Wheeler served Lamb post office (42155) consecutively until June 1, 1989. Thereafter, Janet Bewley served as officer-in-charge of a postal station at Lamb until service was suspended, November 30, 1990, and finally discontinued December 12, 1994.[6] Lamb general store #2 was also closed about the same time, and the building later burned. The concrete floor pad of store #2 is all that remains today.

According to Charlie Wheeler, Lamb storekeeper and husband of Lamb’s last postmaster, Oleta (Johnson) Wheeler, John Newton Johnson (1852-1922),[7][8] Oleta’s grandfather, had sheep on his farm and this was the origin of the “Lamb” name. John Newton Johnson was the father and father-in-law, respectively, of Lamb storekeepers and postmasters, Erskine Johnson and his wife, Pearl (Arterburn) Johnson.[5] Joel Flowers (1797-1862), maternal grandfather of John Newton Johnson, was the first identifiable recorded landowner here. The gravesites of Joel Flowers[9] and son-in-law David N. Johnson,[10] ancestor of this Johnson Family, are in Johnson-Flowers Cemetery.

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