History

The post office building's architectural style represented strength. It remains one of the most striking buildings in downtown Hopkinsville.

The environmental center is on the grounds of the city's old water treatment plant. The 40-acre site has a 2.7 mile walking trail.

The same evangelist also had a role in building a Nashville church that later became a famous music venue.

A memoir of Starling's 30 years in the White House relied, in part, on details he shared in some 11,000 daily letters written to his mother in Hopkinsville.

Films were not shown at the Alhambra from 1983 to 2013. Digital film equipment brought movies back with grants and local donations.

Steve Shields created dozens of works and became a highly regarded artist before his death in 1998.

Twenty employees of the Kentucky New Era will work from the former J.C. Penney building that has been under renovation for about six months.

The building constructed in 1902 has housed several businesses over its history, including four drug stores. The last one, Herb Brandt's Corner Drugs, closed in 1989

Prosperity had Depression on the run, at least in spirit, when the Chamber of Commerce organized Hopkinsville's first big Christmas parade.

Baptist churches in the region established an organization to create the private girls school in 1854. The main campus was on West 15th Street between Main and Canton streets.

Thomas Jefferson Baugh, who became an electrician after working for a phone company, put the colored lights on the city's tree at Peace Park.

In the 1963 Democratic primary, Edward Thompson "Ned" Breathitt Jr. defeated a former governor, A.B. “Happy” Chandler, for his party’s nomination. Then he beat the Republican nominee by approximately 13,000 votes.