History

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.

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.