The Jackson Purchase Historical Society will meet on Saturday, May 21, at 10:30 a.m. at Wickliffe Mounds State Park, 94 Green Street, Wickliffe, Kentucky. Our speaker will be Carla Hildebrand, who has been at the park for a number of years and has been manager of the Wickliffe Mounds State Park since 2004. The park has a very long and rich prehistorical story to tell as a human habitation and cultural site. Probably more than can be discussed fully in a single program. Among the topics Carla’s presentation will address are the occupation of the site by the Mississippian culture…
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Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from May 11, 1872 A drought was reported in Fulton County and the “whole county [was] suffering for rain.” The fruit crop in the region was forecasted to be “almost a total failure” as caterpillars have stripped the trees bare. The young ladies and gentlemen of Hickman arranged to have a moonlight picnic and dance on May 14th in the woods near Chalybeate Springs. The Hickman Cornet Band volunteered to play that evening and that the Paducah Silver Band was invited to attend. The authorities of Hickman requested that citizens not burn their trash in…