Paducah, Kentucky

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Paducah

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Paducah.

6 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

• Paducah, KY · Local history

  Paducah owes its existence to the rivers. Situated where the Ohio and Tennessee meet, the town became a natural hub for transportation and trade. Named for the Padouca tribe, the city was formally established in the…

• Lloyd Tilghman House · 0.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Pull over, history buffs! We're about to visit the former home of Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman. Get ready to step back into the Civil War era right here in Paducah. This house holds stories of a man caught in the…

• Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site · 6.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine a bustling city here nearly a thousand years ago! The Kincaid Mounds site was once a major center for the Mississippian culture. Between 1050 and 1400, people built at least eleven platform mounds here. These…

• Fort Massac · 6.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Imagine the Ohio River teeming with canoes and flatboats – this spot, Fort Massac, was a crucial crossroads for centuries. First established by the French in 1757 during the French and Indian War, Fort Massac served as…

• Slave George and the Quake That Betrayed the Lewis Brothers · 11.7 mi · Web

  On the night of December fifteenth, eighteen eleven, in a kitchen at Rocky Hill plantation in Livingston County, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews, Lilburne and Isham Lewis, killed an enslaved seventeen year old named…

• Kentucky Dam · 18.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb

  Get ready to be dwarfed! Kentucky Dam isn't just a wall of concrete; it's a monument to ambition and a testament to the power of the New Deal. Back in the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Tennessee Valley Authority began…