Caskey Hotel

The Caskey Hotel, owned by AC Caskey, sat prominently on Main Street in downtown Morehead. The 32-room hotel was built in the 1920s and was known as one of Morehead's most popular hotels. As history tells, a local musician, Jim Wilson, was asleep in the hotel and was awaken by the smell of smoke. He was successful in getting everyone out of the hotel safe. The hotel and the shops below the hotel were a loss. It took local and nearby Olive Hill fire departments two hours to get the fire under control. Additionally, several nearby buildings were damaged, seven school buses stored in a garage at the rear of the building were destroyed and firemen escaped flying debris when the building toppled. Damage estimates were reported well over $50,000.