Women's History in Hoptown

Stories about the impact fo women in Hopknsville history.

Local Notables

bell hooks: author, feminist scholar & activist

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks with reporters during a press conference in the Ohio Clock Corridor of the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 3, 2026. At left is Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine. (Photo by Jennifer Shutt | States Newsroom)

KY’s Rand Paul only Republican voting to curb Trump’s war powers as resolution is defeated

Ashley Murray

whiskey barrels

KY Bourbon Trail launches online trip builder allowing visitors to better plan, personalize experiences

Northern Kentucky Tribune

Fannie Louise Maddux chosen Woman of the Year

dalton house music room

Dalton House served as backdrop to daily life for sisters Sarah and Margaret

Linda Pearson named Woman of the Year at Human Rights Commission celebration

March edition of History on Tap: Wealth and adventure for a Hopkinsville girl

bell hooks Memorial Writing Contest winners to be announced Sunday

Hopkinsville women who influenced our history

Brooks Memorial Hospital in Hopkinsville

5 historic places to explore in Hopkinsville

South Christian farmer’s daughter built a rich life in Lexington

Museum recognizes long-serving board member with Olde Lamplighter Award

History on Tap will feature the adventures of 10 traveling women in 1911

1911 women

Hopkinsville women take trip of a lifetime

Sarah Myers on book cover

Author who once featured local Jewish businesswoman Sarah Myers to lead virtual program

Women are leading downtown Hopkinsville’s renaissance

The story behind the woman in the blue dress

jim crow car

Fannie Lander: A civil rights activist ahead of her time

Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library sign

Library hosting Women’s History Month scavenger hunt

WKMS celebrates Women’s History Month 2022 with special programming

bell hooks speaking

Hopkinsville to celebrate bell hooks’ legacy during Women’s History Month

bell hooks screening at hcc

HCC slates March series to screen bell hooks interviews

kamala harris tribute

Hopkinsville AKA sisters celebrate Kamala Harris inauguration

Ceremony set to install county’s first historical marker to a woman

Hopkinsville marchers commemorate the American centennial of women’s suffrage

Mary Bronaugh newspaper article

Hopkinsville native Mary Bronaugh was among early female lawyers in Kentucky

Susan B. Anthony spoke in 1879 to a Hopkinsville audience that overwhelmingly did not support women’s suffrage

civil rights activists

Civil rights attorney Louis McHenry’s teenage daughter Gail was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Riverside Chapel

Riverside Chapel saved by a Hopkinsville dress shop owner in 1959

Jeffers’ Bend is named for the only woman ever elected Hopkinsville’s mayor

Hal and Bettye Thurmond

Faith led Hal and Bettye Thurmond to be civil rights leaders

Hopkinsville was almost named Elizabethtown