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…
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On August 5, 1977, Robert Rennick interviewed historian Lon Carter Barton at his home in Mayfield for over four hours discussing the history of community names in Graves County and the Jackson Purchase. Rennick was touring Kentucky researching the place names of villages, towns, and cities throughout the Commonwealth for a forthcoming publication. Below is the transcription of the third of six audio cassettes recorded that day. Barton: … [Feliciana continued] but they just didn’t name very many villages and communities for slaves, whether they killed, fighting each other, or whether they weren’t. I wouldn’t rule it out entirely, but…