Moraga Barn

Built in 1914 as a hotel by the Moraga Company for its townsite development. It later became the Moraga Mercantile and included the telephone exchange and post office. Since 1933 it has been a bar.

Moraga Historical Society

Marker 5

1994

Marker is at ...

George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818

George Rogers Clark, 1752-1818, a Virginia surveyor, came to Kentucky to seek his fortune. In 1776, he thwarted the claim of Richard Henderson and Daniel Boone to the territory wet of the Appalachians by persuading the Virginia legislature to create ...

Gedney Main Howe, Jr

1914 - 1981

(Front)

The man we honor and

here remembered served his

country in the time of war,

his state in time of peace.

In his beloved Charleston,

he was the preeminent Trial

Lawyer of the 20th Century, yet his

reach was broader than the law.

With ...

Robert S. Davis

In 1884, Robert S. Davis recalled that the first building was a round-log cabin, about sixteen feet square, erected by the Pore brothers, James and William, in April of 1821. Davis identified four families living at the site at that ...

Paducah 1873 "Birds Eye View"

It was common practice in post-Civil War America for communities to be depicted in bird's-eye views showing buildings, people, animals boats, rivers, streams and railroad lines. This mural recreates an 1873 Bird's -Eye View Map of Paducah which now hangs ...

Paducah's Architecture

Paducah architecture reflected the settlers' different religious faiths. These institutions helped unite the early settlers of the community. Broadway United Methodist Church is the oldest, founded 1832 at 4th and Broadway. It relocated to the southeast corner of 7th and ...

Dorothy Parker Birthplace

Site of the summer cottage of Dorothy Parker. Short story writer, critic and poet. Member of the Algonquin Round Table. Champion for social justice. Born here in West End, New Jersey. August 22, 1893 is designated a Literary Landmark by ...

Paducah's River Industry

Paducah's River Industry was the city's lifeblood. Steamboats and tobacco were critical to the area's economy in the late 1880's. Mule-drawn transfer wagons moved hogshead barrels of tobacco that weighed around 1,600 pounds each. Nearly 20,000 barrels were stored annually ...

Union Gen. U.S. Grant

Union Gen. U.S. Grant occupied Paducah on Sept. 6,1861, building a pontoon bridge across the Ohio River to the Illinois shore. Ft. Anderson was built and named after Kentuckian and Ft. Sumter commander Maj. Robert Anderson. Attacked March 25 and ...

The August 8th Emancipation Celebration at Stuart Nelson Park

Nelson was a graduate of Lincoln High School, commissioned officer in WWI, and president of several major universities. He marched with Ghandi in India and with Dr. King in Alabama.

Burks Chapel AME,7th and Ohio, ran the first school for Negro ...