Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from March 16, 1872 A body of a man was found in the Mississippi River above the Hickman wharf on March 11th. No identification was found on the body but was believed to be a steamboat deckhand or laborer. An inquest found it to be an accidental drowning. The corpse was buried in the city cemetery. The rock for building the Hickman wharf began to arrive by rail on March 13th from Johnsonville, Tennessee. Contractors planned to fill in as much rock as possible before the spring floods. City leaders encouraged residents to plant shade…
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The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday March 19 at 10:30 am at the Emerging Technology Center, West Kentucky Community and Technical College on Blandville Road (US 62). Our speaker will George G. Humphreys who will discuss his recent book The Fall of Kentucky’s Rock: Western Kentucky Democratic Politics since the New Deal. The publisher describes the book as (an) “in-depth study offers a new examination of a region that is often overlooked in political histories of the Bluegrass State. George G. Humphreys traces the arc of politics and the economy in western Kentucky from avid support…