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SUPREME COURT RESTORATION

Jun 27, 2022 at 02:48 pm by admin

A president, facing a radically right-facing United State Supreme Court, goes to the American people calling for reforming the Court. This is President Joe Biden following th.... 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

That Was the Year That Was - So Far

Aug 25, 2021 at 03:00 pm by admin

Back in the day, somewhere around 1963 through 1965, my world was being transformed from watching color TV. Dad had just sent the old black and white TV to the grave yard of o.... Read More

Kentucky Receives $150,000 in Federal Funding to Preserve Three African American Historic Sites

Jul 27, 2021 at 01:04 pm by admin

Cherokee State Park, Hotel Metropolitan and Palmer Pharmacy Building to Receive Historical Preservation Funding FRANKFORT, Ky. (July 26, 2021) - Today, Gov. Andy Beshear and.... Read More

President sets July 16th to honor Atomic Veterans

Jul 15, 2021 at 01:16 pm by admin

Proclamation by the President of the United States: "On July 16, 1945, the United States detonated the world's first nuclear device in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Better known by.... Read More

Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor Author to be in Clinton

Jun 01, 2021 at 03:57 pm by admin

Historian Berry Craig will be at the Historical & Genealogical Society on S. Washington Street in Clinton at 10:00 a.m on June 12th to discuss his new book, Kentuckians an.... Read More

Freedmen's School at Columbus KY- teaching former slaves

Aug 04, 2020 at 11:41 am by admin

After the Confederates left Columbus, KY, it became an important Union Army and Navy supply depot. It also became a refugee center for former slaves among which was raised the.... Read More

Her name was Hanna and she was sold to settle a debt.

Jun 28, 2020 at 03:32 pm by admin

One hundred seventy nine years ago on the day after Independence Day, an auction was held on the Hickman County Courthouse steps in the county seat of Clinton. It wasn't that.... Read More

Professor Clardy presents black history lecture to interested audience

Feb 23, 2020 at 06:16 pm by admin

(Clinton, KY) - Many of us attending Dr. Brian Clardy's Black History Month program at Green Valley Missionary Baptist Church on February 20th thought we knew history. It turn.... Read More

NAACP to host showing of "Harriet" in Mayfield

Nov 14, 2019 at 09:22 am by admin

The Mayfield-Graves County NAACP branch will host a special viewing of the critically-acclaimed movie Harriet at 7 p.m. Monday November 18th, in the Princess Theater, 1102 Pa.... 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

Judge Cunningham: One last tour of the farthest end of his district

Apr 17, 2019 at 10:13 am by admin

Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Bill Cunningham took a last tour of the River Counties on Friday, April 12, 2019. The Judge retired at the end of 2018. In his announcement, he.... Read More

Conversation of historians Beschloss and Meacham a treat

Nov 20, 2018 at 10:15 am by admin

(Nashville TN) - Imagine you are-say - seven again and it's Thanksgiving and you're sitting at the kids table. (You know, that card table set up close enough to the grown ups.... Read More

Heritage Days 2018 - art, food, music and classic cars

Aug 27, 2018 at 03:10 pm by admin

Clinton KY - The Fourth Annual Hickman County Heritage Days celebrates the long and rich history of Hickman County, the first Kentucky county in the Jackson Purchase. Heritage.... Read More