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…
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Stories of Interest from the Hickman Courier from March 9, 1872 The driving of piles at the Hickman wharf was fully underway. The piles were made of cypress logs, thirty, forty, fifty and sixty feet in length and an average of ten inches thick. 400 piles were needed to be driven before completion of the project. A freight blockade at Hickman continued as railroad cars backed up in the railyard. The yard managers claim it was “now absolutely compulsory on them to erect an elevator.” Building sites in East Hickman were offered to “bona fide settlers.” Every fourth lot in the division…