Hickman County Kentucky

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Indenture-The Reconstruction Era in Hickman County

Jul 04, 2022 at 02:52 pm by admin

Indenture in colonial America was a popular way for immigrants who could ill afford passage from the old country to the new world. Employers provided transportation in return.... Read More

"We should not have to beg for services for our people"

Oct 30, 2021 at 12:03 pm by admin

County to send formal protest to Dr. Stack's office (State Department of Health) in regard to Purchase District Health Department not providing services for citizens here By G.... Read More

Retired Courier Journal reporter pens 200th Hickman County Anniversary Proclamation

Sep 27, 2021 at 12:06 pm by admin

Former Courier Journal reporter, Ira Simmons, penned the proclamation commemorating the 200th anniversary of the first county of the Kentucky Jackson Purchase. The proclamati.... Read More

Early history of Hickman County

Sep 27, 2021 at 11:52 am by admin

Once the entire Kentucky portion of the Jackson Purchase was Hickman County. Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby set this story in motion when they negotiated The Chickasaw Treat.... Read More

Homegrown Heroes Remembered During 200th Celebration

Sep 17, 2021 at 03:14 pm by admin

Our country has been protected and served by many men and women throughout its history. As we have recently remembered 9/11and as we approach our county's bicentennial celeb.... Read More

Laura's Dream: big enough for a county to share

Aug 14, 2021 at 11:00 am by admin

Sometimes a dream is so big it pulls a whole county into it. Such was the dream Hickman County librarian Laura Poole who envisioned a children's museum in Paducah. Funding was.... Read More

Gray Ladies provided services,

Mar 05, 2021 at 03:47 pm by admin

March is Women's History Month, an annual recognition of the contributions of women to events in our history and contemporary society. The Hickman County Historical &.... Read More

Look for the helpers: On Election Day in Hickman County, it will be students

Oct 31, 2020 at 11:22 am by admin

When Hickman County voters pull up to the elementary school gym on Tuesday, they will be greeted by smiling students, hired for one purpose: to help them get through the votin.... Read More

Rep. Rudy's attack on library funding is all about access

Mar 10, 2020 at 02:38 pm by admin

Word has reached me that the Republican controlled House Budget Committee, under the control of First District Representative Steven Rudy, has declared war on local rural libr.... Read More

Heritage Days Event Old Hymn Sing Returns September 6th

Aug 15, 2019 at 11:31 am by admin

Music lovers mark your calendars! The Fifth Annual Old Hymn Sing will make a joyful noise on Friday September 6th in the Clinton First United Methodist Church sanctuary. Doors.... Read More

Who is my neighbor?

Jul 30, 2019 at 04:10 pm by admin

Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might. Deuteronomy 6:4-5.... Read More

Comer - back in the Purchase during Fancy Farm week

Jul 30, 2019 at 04:01 pm by admin

(Clinton, KY) First District Representative James Comer is back in the Purchase for the premier political event in the Commonwealth's calendar - the Fancy Farm Picnic. While h.... Read More

Purchase Poet, Dorothy Nell Harper, dies at 102

Jun 18, 2019 at 03:10 pm by admin

Dorothy Nell Harper passed from this world to the next at her home on Harper Road yesterday. In her 102 years of life, she touched many of us with her wit, her charm and her k.... Read More

Sprucing Up for Heritage Days

Aug 15, 2017 at 03:40 pm by admin

Heritage Days is a time for Hickman Countians to reflect on events that shaped the region, and stories of those who gave Hickman County a legacy worth celebrating. For 2017,.... Read More

Rep. Comer - health care the most difficult issue

Aug 03, 2017 at 02:54 pm by admin

(Clinton, KY August 3, 2017) - A crowd of fifty attended Representative James Comer's twenty third town hall meeting at the Hickman County Extension Office in Clinton today..... Read More