Paducah, Kentucky
McCracken county seat, founded by Gen. William Clark of Lewis and Clark Expedition at confluence of Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. Named for legendary Indian Chief Paduke. Home of Vice Pres. Alben Barkley and birthplace of Irvin . . . — — Map (db m146587) HM
Paducah, Kentucky. McCracken county seat, founded by
Gen. William Clark of Lewis and
Clark Expedition at confluence of
Ohio and Tennessee Rivers. Named
for legendary Indian Chief Paduke.
Home of Vice Pres. Alben Barkley
and birthplace . . . — — Map (db m170135) HM
Lewis and Clark in McCracken County
Lewis and Clark, with the nucleus of the Corps of Discovery, stayed in present McCracken Co. in Nov. 1803 while traveling down the Ohio River on their journey to the Pacific. Clark returned 1827 to . . . — — Map (db m47208) HM
Traditionally on August 8, African Americans assemble in Paducah to celebrate freedom and pay tribute to their roots. They gather annually for dances, ballgames, and picnics, as a family occasion and in a spirit of community remembrance. In some . . . — — Map (db m158747) HM
In 1792, Kentucky separated from Virginia and became fifteenth state in the Union. It was not until 1818 that Indian lands west of Tennessee River were bought from the Chickasaws and named the Jackson Purchase.
Established in 1897, it is also known as the Fraternity Building. During WWII, it was home of the Paducah-McCracken County Draft Board. Nearly 5,000 men & women from the Paducah area served in the war. It was designated a Kentucky Landmark in 2002 . . . — — Map (db m154672) HM WM
Wiliam Clark, 1770 - 1838, a soldier, explorer,
Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and Governor of Missouri Territory, is best known for the Lewis and Clark voyage of discovery up the Missouri River in 1804. William got title to the 37,000 acre site . . . — — Map (db m249949) HM
On this site stood the office of Reuben Saunders, M.D., credited with discovering that hypodermic use of morphine~atropine halted cholera during epidemic here in 1873. Telegraphed prescription to other plague~stricken areas.
Accepted by Materia . . . — — Map (db m47252) HM
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