McCracken

Paducah, KY

Irvin Shrewsburg Cobb, 1876-1944.

Paducah, KY

In 1827, Gen. Wm. Clark purchased 37,000 acres of land, including the site on which Paducah now stands, for $5. This land, part of a...

Paducah, KY

Traditionally on August 8, African Americans assemble in Paducah to celebrate freedom and pay tribute to their roots.

Paducah, KY

During the Civil War, Paducah was the first city in Ky.

Paducah, KY

Col. Albert P. Thompson fell here in Battle of Paducah, March 25, 1864, victim of Union cannonball.

Paducah, KY

McCracken County Chapter chartered May 14, 1917.

Paducah, KY

Home of Alben W. Barkley, 1937-56.

Paducah, KY

Born in Kansas, Ann Baker came to Paducah in 1899 to work for her father, Henry Baker, at Ayer-Lord Tie Co. (railroad crossties).

Paducah, KY

Alben W. Barkley, "The Veep," was Senate majority leader under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Vice-President under President Harry...

Paducah, KY

Alben W. Barkley, Congressman, U.S. Senator, and Vice President, began practice of law here, 1901.

Paducah, KY

The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated on February 8, 1910.

Paducah, KY

Paducah's oldest institution.

Paducah, KY

Organized ca. 1871 at home of Dinah Jarrett with 12 members.

Paducah, KY

Chief of sub-tribe of Chickasaw Indians, who lived and hunted in this area until Jackson Purchase, 1818.

Paducah, KY

Organized in Paducah in 1906 from a six-week tent meeting.

Paducah, KY

The organizer of the American Red Cross in 1881, Clara Barton, came to Paducah March 13, 1884, on the steamboat "Josh V. Throop" to help...

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George Rogers Clark was original patentee of land on which Paducah is now located.

Paducah, KY

House in which Paducah's famed humorist, Irvin S. Cobb, was born in 1876 stood here until 1917.

Paducah, KY

Site of home of Col. Ed Murray who built the USS Merrimac, 1855.

Paducah, KY

Here stood the headquarters of Colonel Stephen G. Hicks, commander of the USA occupation forces here during Battle of Paducah March 25,...

Paducah, KY

With the Confederate occupation of Hickman and Columbus in the late summer of 1861, Paducahans were thrilled and flew a large Confederate...

Paducah, KY

In 1792, Kentucky separated from Virginia and became fifteenth state in the Union.

Paducah, KY

On this site stood the office of Reuben Saunders, M.D., credited with discovering that hypodermic use of morphine-atropine halted cholera...

Paducah, KY

Physician credited with discovery that hypodermic use of morphine-atropine halted cholera during epidemic here, 1873.

Paducah, KY

Lincoln Grad Had Global Footprints- Dr. Nelson was born in Paris, Ky.

Paducah, KY

Organized as mission, New Bethel Church 1839; constituted as church Nov. 14, 1840.

Paducah, KY

Organized, 1849, affiliated with Campbell-Stone Movement in plea for Christian Unity.

Paducah, KY

Here in April 1821, three years after the Jackson Purchase, the first home, a round-log cabin, was built by James and William Pore.

Paducah, KY

Organized October 29, 1842, at home of Judge James Campbell on Broadway, with eight charter members.

Gen. Nathan B. Forrest and his CSA troops bivouacked one mile southwest of this spot after Battle of Paducah, March 25, 1864.

Paducah, KY

In a grove of trees at this site, CSA Gen. Nathan B. Forrest had headquarters, Battle of Paducah, on March 25, 1864.

Paducah, KY

General N. B. Forrest with Thompson's Ky.

Paducah, KY

Union fortification built, 1861, by Gen. Charles F. Smith.

Paducah, KY

Congregation organized in 1892 as a mission.

Paducah, KY

Gen. George Rogers Clark visited this spot, 1778.

Paducah, KY

Heroic statue of this Confederate erected in 1909 by his sons and United Daughters of Confederacy.

Paducah, KY

Grace Church was organized in 1848 in the home of Adam Rankin, led by the Rev. N. N. Cowgill of Hickman.

Paducah, KY

On this spot, September 6, 1861, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant read proclamation to citizens of Paducah announcing that the Union Army was taking...

Paducah, KY

Here is buried the man who, at age 24, taught Darwin's theory of evolution to a Dayton, Tennessee, biology class.

Paducah, KY

Site of a one-story frame store, Hummel's Gunshop.

Paducah, KY

"All gave some, some gave all"- Established in 1897, it is also known as the Fraternity Building.

Paducah, KY

Here the Tenn. River flows into the Ohio.

Paducah, KY

Organized in 1887, as mission of First Baptist Church.

Paducah, KY

This Mikado-type steam locomotive is dedicated to Illinois Central men and women, past and present, and to the importance of the railroad...

Paducah, KY

Native of Paducah, famed wit and humorist; newspaper reporter, war correspondent and feature writer; author of books, short stories,...

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8,500 square mile area, former tribal lands of Chickasaw Indians.

Paducah, KY

Lewis and Clark, with the nucleus of the Corps of Discovery, stayed in present McCracken Co. in Nov. 1803 while traveling down the Ohio...

Paducah, KY

Home of Linn Boyd, 1800-59, stood 500 ft. south.

Paducah, KY

First courthouse on this site finished 1861 and occupied almost immediately by Union Army.

Paducah, KY

From this point a company of 90 Paducahans-3,500 population-formed by Lt. Harry Easton, left to take part in the Mexican War.

Paducah, KY

Here for six years presided William Sutton Bishop, the famed Judge Priest of Irvin S. Cobb's stories.

Paducah, KY

Founded at 707 Broadway in 1932, this is oldest nondenominational two-year college in Ky.

Paducah, KY

Built here 1889 by Paducah Iron Co., 70 ft. high with a maximum inner diameter of 14 ft. Rated annual capacity 30,000 tons of iron, using...

Paducah, KY

Located at the confluence of Ohio and Tennessee Rivers.

Paducah, KY

McCracken county seat, founded by Gen. William Clark of Lewis and Clark Expedition at confluence of Ohio and Tennessee Rivers.

Paducah, KY

Paducah, only major Kentucky city with an Indian name, was named in honor of legendary Indian Chief Paduke by Gen. William Clark when he...

Paducah, KY

This unique pleasure-boat tour is an eighty-mile loop from Paducah up the Tennessee, through Kentucky Lock, up Kentucky Lake, through the...

Paducah, KY

ROTARY CLUB OF PADUCAH Established in 1915 as the 2nd Rotary Club in Kentucky and 139th in the world.

Paducah, KY

First courthouse at Wilmington, 1824-32.

Organized Jan. 14, 1843 as Newton's Creek Church with fifteen charter members.

Paducah, KY

St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church is the oldest church in Paducah located on original site.

Paducah, KY

Roots of the first Catholic parish in McCracken Co. go back to German immigrants who settled in this area about 1839.

Paducah, KY

Organized on Pentecost Sunday, May 24, 1868, by the Rev. B. Sickel.

Paducah, KY

An organized Jewish community has existed in Paducah since 1864, when Paducah Chevra Yeshurun Burial Society was chartered.

Paducah, KY

Gen. Lloyd Tilghman, soldier and rail builder, lived here, 1852-61.

Paducah, KY

Organized August, 1874 as "German Evangelical Unity Church" with the Rev. Daniel Eschenbrenner, first pastor.

Paducah, KY

Organized 1855 in log cabin near this site, led by George Brent, member Paducah First Baptist Church.

Paducah, KY

Ground broken for this college on December 9, 1909, by Dr. Dennis H. Anderson, who had a determination to improve education for Negroes...

Paducah, KY

Incorporated March 3, 1851, by an act of Kentucky General Assembly as Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Paducah, KY

Main part of house, two-story brick structure, built in 1860s by Edward Anderson.

Site of first McCracken County seat half mile south.