The Jackson Purchase Historical Society will meet at the Inland Waterways Museum as part of their joint History on the River occasional series of programs on July 20. The meeting will begin at 10:30 am at the Museum at 117 South Water Street in Paducah. The program will be presented by Bob Jost who will discuss his extensive research on the Trail of Tears, especially the Water Route, which went down the Tennessee River and then west on the Ohio. The various groups being removed via the Water Route passed directly in front of the building in which we will…
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Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from July 11, 1874 “A beautiful meteor shot through the sky illuminating the whole of Hickman” on the night of July 7th. The editor of the Hickman Courier wrote that it “exploded brilliant scintillations in apparent variegated colors.” The thermometer stood at 100 degrees on July 6th and 7th in Hickman. A rain showered the region on July 8th in great relief of the townsfolk and farmers. The black citizens of Hickman, and a great number of visitors from around the region, celebrated the 4th of July with a grand picnic, procession, speeches,…