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Services and schedules First Presbyterian Church, Hopkinsville, KY Built in 1848. Wikimedia image. According to a directory publi...

A big mountain lion remembered The following passage is quoted from A History of Muhlenberg County (pp 114-116), written by Otto Arthur...

The Colonel E. G. Sebree house "Do you know anything about that big old house along Highway 41, east of Trenton?" a blog reader ...

Ghost town? I don't think so. Agenda, Kansas, is an important place name in my family tree. During the 1880s, my great-great-gran...

An old settlers graveyard in Republic County, Kansas Willoughby Cemetery, near Agenda, Kansas One hot day last July, my brother, ...

Dinner Party Menu, 1892 On January 4, 1892, Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Stegar of Trenton, Kentucky, had a Leap Year dinner party, Fifteen u...

And the old freight depot Whistle Stop Donuts in Hopkinsville (KY) now has two buildings, near each other and (of course) near the ...

A chance to set the record straight I've written several times in the past about Camp Alcorn in Hopkinsville, KY, where about 300 ...

The depot's floor plan I found the following description of the L&N passenger depot in Hopkinsville, KY, in  Buildings and Str...

History of a Christian County health spa Like most roads with interesting names, Salubria Springs Road (just west of Pembroke...

Barker's Mill area of southeastern Christian County, KY   I wrote this about 2 years ago, when I was exploring the history of the Bark...

A man "who lived inside himself" I came across a rather sad story in a hundred-year-old issue of the Kentucky New Era: HOWELL...

An old precinct building in Christian County, KY This little concrete-block building stands at the intersection of Pilot Rock Road and La...

Old-time log houses On the public square at the center of Wheatland, Missouri , a miniature village of genuine log houses awaits tourists....

Seen in old plat book of Brown County, Nebraska Recently, I came across a 1912 plat book of Brown County, Nebraska. The original copy is h...

Fairview, birthplace of Jefferson Davis The following passage is transcribed from the Kentucky New Era, July 23, 1886 (page 3). I have pr...

Graves of Confederate soldiers in Riverside Cemetery Cemetery and census records at the Christian County library Recently, I receiv...

Holiday happenings in Garrettsburg, Pleasant Grove, Bennettstown, and Montgomery On January 15, 1875, the Kentucky New Era of Hopkinsvill...