• This Week 150 Years Ago

    This Week 150 Years Ago in Hickman – April 8, 1871

    Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from April 8, 1871 • A portion of the people of Ballard County clamored for a division of the county and it was proposed that Milburn be the new county seat. • The Mayfield Democrat reported that a Professor J. Hervey Gardner swindled about $5,000 from the people of Fulton Station under the guise to build a school but departed with the money on the Paducah & Gulf Railroad. • Judge A. R. Boon and several other gentlemen left on April 7th for Mayfield from Paducah after attending proceedings against him in the…