Slave George and the Quake That Betrayed the Lewis Brothers
· 0.2 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…
Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site
· 6.3 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…
Paducah, KY
· 11.4 mi · 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
· 11.4 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…
Kentucky Dam
· 11.5 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…
Fort Massac
· 15.6 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…
Buel House
· 16.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Pull over near the Buel House and imagine a bustling river town in the 1840s! This unassuming home played a small part in a much larger event. During the Mexican-American War, which began in 1846, Golconda served as a…
Golconda Historic District
· 16.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Ever wonder what a river town looked like in the mid-1800s? Golconda's historic district offers a glimpse. Established around 1840, this area became a vital hub along the Ohio River. Golconda thrived as a trading…
Kentucky State Penitentiary
· 19.2 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Nicknamed the 'Castle on the Cumberland,' this imposing maximum-security prison has housed some of Kentucky's most notorious criminals. Completed in 1886, the Kentucky State Penitentiary, or KSP, is the state's oldest…
The Fluorite Capital Isn't Named for Fluorite
· 19.9 mi
Rosiclare, Illinois, was the beating heart of America's fluorspar country, the mineral the rest of us call fluorite. For more than a century this little Ohio River town ran one of the largest fluorspar mines in the…
