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Originally Posted by bigrun
My wife was from Hazard and we've been to several towns and cities in KY but never made it to paducah, liked that name  |
some argument about where the name came from. one indian tribe said it wasn't theirs...who knows?
but george rogers clark bought the 35k acres that are now paducah from his brothers estate...for $5.
took my son up there for a job, he's on his way this evening to st. paul. lucky, he's going to work for a transport company that moves barges up and down the rivers.
geographical tidbit--paducah is the only place in the world with that many navigable rivers that converge in one area.
we drove over the mississippi, and almost immediately turned 90 degrees and went over the ohio. neat stuff.
got to see where grant came ashore. where that devil forrest raided, etc.