History

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

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.

Statue of journalist who broke color barriers set for Russellville dedication

by Rhonda Miller
July 30, 2019

The statue commemorates Logan County native Alice Allison Dunnigan, who was the first African-American woman to get press credentials to cover the White House.

Bevin’s special legislative session on pensions starts Friday

by Ryland Barton
July 19, 2019

The governor's proclamation calling a special session is tailored so lawmakers will likely only be able to consider a proposal that Bevin has hammered out with Republican leaders of the legislature.

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?