Did You Know

The son of a local surgeon, he graduated from Hopkinsville High School in 1935. Working in New York after World War II, he became friends with Grace Kelly.

In Cayce's game, the players act as traders battling for commodities such as sugar, wheat and coffee.

Gail McHenry was 19 years old when she served as the youngest delegate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Ebony magazine carried a three-page story about her that fall.

Dr. Phillip C. Brooks Sr. was a graduate of Attucks High School. He built the hospital in his hometown during World War II.

The Union Benevolent Society established the cemetery for African Americans shortly after the Civil War.

Robert Lincoln Poston started his newspaper work in Hopkinsville before moving to Detroit and then New York City. In 1934, he led a delegation to Liberia for black nationalist Marcus Garvey's organization.

A Union colonel who was tricked into surrendering to the Confederates at Clarksville, Tennessee, called Woodward an "insignificant cuss."

One of Hopkinsville’s most striking historic landmarks was saved from bring razed in 1959 after the widow of a former city commissioner raised public awareness and money to save the chapel.

The post office building's architectural style represented strength. It remains one of the most striking buildings in downtown Hopkinsville.

The environmental center is on the grounds of the city's old water treatment plant. The 40-acre site has a 2.7 mile walking trail.

The same evangelist also had a role in building a Nashville church that later became a famous music venue.

A memoir of Starling's 30 years in the White House relied, in part, on details he shared in some 11,000 daily letters written to his mother in Hopkinsville.