The next meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society will take place at the Hickman County Historical and Genealogical Society on the Court Square (141 S Washington St) in Clinton, Kentucky on September 22nd, starting at 10:30 am. The meeting is free and open to the public. The speaker will be JPHS’ own William H. (Bill) Mulligan, Jr., the current JPHS president.  Mulligan is a professor of history at Murray State University. His topic is “Modernizing Warfare: US Grant and Military Engineering in the Middle Mississippi Valley during the Civil War.”

At the quarterly meeting of the Jackson Purchase Historical Society Saturday, members and guests will hear a presentation on the History of Hickman County in the morning, followed by a picnic lunch at Columbus-Belmont State Park. The meeting begins at 10:30 AM Saturday, July 16th, at the Hickman County Historical and Genealogy Society, 107 S. Washington St., on the court square in Clinton. Members and guests may bring their own lunch, or purchase it at the state park snack bar. After lunch, JPHS President Bill Mulligan, Professor of History at Murray State University, will give a brief talk about Columbus,…