History

News, features and commentary about history in Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

Past Kentuckians knew the cost of chemical weapons

by Stuart Sanders
June 19, 2019

Among Kentuckians injured by chemical weapons during World War I was Private Addison W. Jones, a soldier from 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.

Ring tells the story of an 1801 duel near Bardstown

by Stuart Sanders
June 12, 2019

Three years before Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, two Kentuckians fought an affair of honor near Bardstown. In that fight, John Rowan — whose home is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park — killed Dr. John Chambers.

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?