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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX67_iced-solid-clear-to-illinois_Paducah-KY.html
Still recovering from the flood that was the worst disaster experienced in the United States up to that time, the new year, 1938, started with what many feared was a prelude to another debacle. At Paducah, the Ohio River froze solid. The riverfron…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWUC_first-county-seat-braxton-small_Paducah-KY.html
Established in 1827, Wilmington served as the first County Seat. During the flood of February 1832, Braxton Small, serving as the first County Court Clerk for McCracken County (1825-1858), removed all records to Paducah from the original Courthous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWUA_chickasaw-tribe-in-kentucky_Paducah-KY.html
The Chickasaw tribe claimed all of Kentucky and Tennessee west of the Tennessee River until a treaty in 1819. Therefore, on November 11, 1803, traders, trappers and Chickasaw natives took little notice of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Corps of d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWU9_woodland-and-mississippian-indians_Paducah-KY.html
Woodland Tradition Indians, around 2,000 years ago, developed exotic mortuary cults, built burial mounds and effigy earthworks, and traded great distances for obsidian, copper, mica, and conch shells. They explored and exploited the caves of south…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWU8_paleo-and-archaic-indians_Paducah-KY.html
Evidence of Native Americans in the lower Ohio Valley includes the Paleo Indians, who lived in this area near the end of the last Ice Age, about 13,000 years ago. Often called Big Game Hunters, they were efficient, nomadic, hunters, fisherman, and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWNZ_8th-u-s-heavy-artillery-colored_Paducah-KY.html
During February 1864, the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army, Lorenzo Thomas, under the direction of the Secretary of War, Edwin L. Stanton, authorized the recruitment of African Americans by the Union Army in Kentucky. The 8th United States Heavy …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWNY_union-headquarters_Paducah-KY.html
Because its location at the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers, and at the northern terminus of the railroad, Paducah was a strategic location throughout the War.
Large numbers of troops and supplies passed through Paducah on their wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVTF_grace-episcopal_Paducah-KY.html
Grace Church was organized in 1848 in the home of Adam Rankin Hickman. First structure, built of lumber cut in Louisville and floated downstream, was located on riverfront near Market Street. Consecrated on April 21, 1851. During Civil War Propert…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVTD_broadway-methodist_Paducah-KY.html
Paducah's oldest institution. Founded 1832. First edifice erected 1842 on northwest corner Broadway at 4th. Relocated 1875 on southwest corner Broadway at 7th. Moved to present site 1896. Destroyed by fire 1929; rebuilt 1930. Judge Wm. Sutton Bish…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMVTB_duke-of-paducah_Paducah-KY.html
Irving Shrewsbury Cobb, 1876-1944.One of Paducah's famous sons. "A first~class humorist from a conversational gesture to a book wit who made all the world laugh with him."Author of more than sixty books, short story writer, recipient of O'Henry Aw…