Sardis
Sardis is a town of about 150 people in the southwest corner of Mason Co., along the Robertson Co. line. It was incorporated on February 14, 1850. The town’s first trustees were Luke Dye, John Murphy, Isaac Reid, James Vanderburg, and Peyton White. During the Civil War, the community was ransacked by Confederate general John Hunt Morgan’s men on June 12, 1864.
The Bank of Sardis opened in 1904, with Louden Grover as its president, but the enterprise failed in 1912. J. M. Wheatley’s opera house was built in 1907 and had seating for 500. Elementary grade schools were established in the community from its beginning, and a high school began in the years between 1910 and 1920. The girls’ basketball team at the high school was the state tournament runner-up in 1922. A fine brick school was dedicated in 1931. The high school remained until 1936, and earlier grades were taught there until 1967.
Sardis had both proslavery and antislavery Methodist churches, which united after the Civil War. The United Methodist Church in town has worshipped in its present building since 1941. A small picturesque post office serves the community.
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Above excerpted from page 805 of THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY ISBN 978-0-8131-2565-7