History

Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation’s board.

1928 pumper truck returns to the city’s old fire station

by Jennifer P. Brown
August 1, 2019

The public can see the American LaFrance firetruck, along with other fire and transportation relics, at the Woody Winfree Fire and Transportation Museum in downtown Hopkinsville.

Hopkinsville was almost named Elizabethtown

by Jennifer P. Brown
June 13, 2019

Turner, county’s historian, hospitalized following stroke

by Jennifer P. Brown
June 12, 2019

William T. Turner, the county's historian, was taken to Nashville in a medical helicopter Monday morning for treatment of a stroke.

Can Attucks school be saved?

by Jennifer P. Brown
March 27, 2019

Despite a push starting in the early 1990s to renovate Attucks school, the building continues to decline. Can it be saved?