Ginn's Furniture Store is a historic commercial building in downtown Milton, Kentucky, United States.
[2]: 8 By the middle of the 19th century, Milton's prosperity was evident in its business community, which included a factory, two blacksmith shops, a hotel, and several grocery stores.
[2]: 11 After the Civil War, economic growth was handicapped: the rise of rail transportation led to a decline in river traffic, and combined with the absence of a railroad in Trimble County, this led to economic weakness, including the closure of a Milton distillery that was the county's only industry.
[2]: 12 Despite their economic hardships, Milton residents erected a surprising number of new buildings during the late nineteenth century.
[3] In the early 1980s, Kentucky Heritage Council officials travelled throughout Trimble County to conduct a survey of its older buildings for historic preservation purposes.