History

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

William T. Turner, the county's historian, was taken to Nashville in a medical helicopter Monday morning for treatment of a stroke.
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.
Despite a push starting in the early 1990s to renovate Attucks school, the building continues to decline. Can it be saved?