History

The plant has a fragrance similar to spearmint. In certain quanities, the plant's extract is toxic.

Also that year, the Kentucky Press Association met for a convention in Hopkinsville's Hotel Latham.

The governor asked churches across the state to simultaneously ring their bells. This is the first Sunday churches are not able to have in-person worship because of the coronavirus.

The South Kentuckian newspaper reported on Anthony's speech and stated local men "don't want the woman dabbling in politics ..."

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.