Charles Mayfield Meacham was a longtime Hopkinsville journalist who also served as the city’s mayor from 1906 to 1914 and wrote the last comprehensive local history of the community.
In the middle of an 1886 blizzard that blanketed Hopkinsville and Christian County in snow, a photographer set up his camera to capture the moment — and provide us a peek into Hopkinsville' history. In the second installment of Hoptown Chronicle's new "Snapshots in Time" column, Alissa Keller brings the moment to life.
In the early 20th century, Christian County had several prosperous thoroughbred breeding farms. Two of those farms were involved in breeding Flying Ebony and preparing the young colt to be sold as a yearling in New York.
The tailor J.K. Hooser installed the decorative, colored-glass sign at his shop in the summer of 1914. It survives 105 years later in the 600 block of South Main Street.
One historical tidbit woven into Charles Mayfield Meacham's History of Christian County was an ordinance passed in 1906 prohibiting cows from running at large.
