The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 10:30 am at the Fort Jefferson Memorial Park, Visitor’s Center, US 51, Wickliffe, Kentucky.This will be Society’ first meeting of the new year as it begins its sixty-sixth year of service to the Jackson Purchase region. The speaker will be Bill Mulligan, JPHS President, and his topic will be “The Beginning of the End: The Western Rivers’ Significance in the American Civil War.” Mulligan will discuss the pivotal role control of the western rivers – the Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Cumberland – played in the initial…

The Jackson Purchase Historical Society (JPHS) will meet on Saturday November 4 at 10:30 am at the Martin Public Library 410 South Lindell Street in Martin. Those who have attended JPHS meetings in Martin in the past should note that this is the NEW library building. This will be JPHS’s last meeting for 2023. The meeting is being held in connection with the Smithsonian Institution’s travelling exhibit, Voices and Votes: Democracy in America. The speaker will be Mark Dudney, Historic Preservation Planner and Dale Hollow Rural Planning Organization Coordinator from Cookeville, Tennessee. His topic is, “A Place at the Table:…