History

The Hall Hotel survived the storm and initial cleanup efforts, but now city officials have declared the building unsafe because of the damages it sustained during the disaster.

Before he became internationally famous as a psychic, Cayce earned his living for several years as a photographer in Hopkinsville and other cities.

In honor of Women's History Month, Hoptown Chronicle is highlighting some of Hopkinsville's most notable women throughout history.

Lynch will serve as an at-large member of the Kentucky African American Heritage Commission.

The 60th anniversary of the Freedom March on Frankfort was commemorated on Tuesday.

The 1927 graduate of Howard University's medical school treated patients in his hometown for 50 years and ran Hopkinsville's only hospital for Black patients during segregation.

At a time when there were only a few Hopkinsville homes with cars, the forward-thinking Monroe Dalton built a house with a garage.

In the second part of a three-part Black History Month series about Dr. Phillip Brooks, Grace Abernethy explores the history of the property where Brooks built Hopkinsville's only hospital for Black patients during segregation.

Cowan Brooks, the son of Dr. Philip Carruthers Brooks, donated the artifact to the Pennyroyal Area Museum shortly after the death of his father.

The Hopkinsville native's best-known song is “Ice Cream Man,” and it has a backstory worthy of the blues.

The reenactment will be Tuesday, March 5, in Frankfort.

The stories come from newspaper biographies written by a former Hopkinsville mayor in 1934.