Business

For one Hodgenville woman sewing has been such a big part of her life that she made a business from it. Rosa Smith started learning to sew at a very young age, “My mother was a seamstress and I remember her making costumes for my uncle who was a mariachi performer. I would have to be her manikin and hold up the coat while she sewed the embellishments on it.” Smith said.

One Buffalo man started his own auto repair business out of his love of repairing semi-trucks and other vehicles.

Randy’s Auto is an auto repair business that is located on 212 Greensburg Road in Hodgenville. The business provides a variety of services including major or minor car repair, semi-truck service and repair, oil changes, towing services and much more.

Owner Randy Allen said he drove a semi-truck for several years and that he always wanted to open his own repair shop.

James E. Bennett Orchard, located about four miles from Buffalo on Bennett Road, has been in the same family through four generations.

“John Bennett started the family in the apple business,” said Lula Bennett, James Bennett’s widow. “John had two sons, Minor and Ernest, who each had orchards as did their sons, James and Tommy.”

James’ son Mike, his wife Glenda and Lula now operate the business that sells several varieties of apples and peaches as well as honey, preserves, sorghum, jellies, and jams.

The Lincoln Museum on the square in Hodgenville, in operation for 26 years and counting, is a prime example of what can be accomplished when a community comes together for a common cause.

“The idea of having a museum centered on Lincoln had been around for many years, but things were not quite right for it until several events happened in short order in 1988,” recalled Iris LaRue, longtime museum director who was serving as LaRue County Chamber of Commerce executive director in 1988.