Robertson - Paducah: frontier to the atomic age

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Robertson, John E.L., and Margaret Robertson. Fountain Avenue United Methodist Church: A Centennial History . Paducah: Image Graphics, 1992.

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Extensive use of newspapers back to the Civil War was possible due to the collections of the McCracken County Public Library, the Filson Club, Murray State University, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Louisville Libraries.

Tape-recorded interviews with various mayors and members of the city commission provided the basis for the section on recent politics, and interviews with survivors of the 1937 flood provided the basis for that section.

Public sources include census documents, the Acts of Kentucky, Kentucky Senate and House Journals , and city and county order books.

The Meriwether Lewis Clark papers in the Clark Family Collection of the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis cleared up the issue of the naming of Paducah. The George Goodman Papers at the University of Kentucky deal with the WPA in Kentucky, the Harvey papers on integration are from the files of Reverend Harvey in Paducah, and the papers of Andrew Jackson in the Library of Congress gave insight to the treaty ceding the Purchase from the Chickasaw to the United States.

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1. BEGINNINGS

The site that is now Paducah, Kentucky, came to the attention of George Rogers Clark in 1778 while he was en route to capture the former French towns in the Illinois country along the lower Ohio River during the American Revolution. With few men and scant supplies, Clark left the Redstone settlement near present Pittsburgh in early May with about 150 men bound for the Falls of the Ohio (now Louisville). In his secret orders to Clark, Virginia Governor Patrick Henry extended him the authority to seize any British forts he deemed advisable. Low water forced Clark to stop at the falls, where he drilled his troops. While on an island there, Clark planted a corn crop to cover a retreat if that should be needed later in the summer.

Proceeding down the river, the party camped on the north (Illinois) side just above the mouth of the Tennessee. While there, Clark noted that the land on the opposite shore at the mouth of the Tennessee gave promise as a city site; however, other affairs were at hand. He proceeded west, stopped short of the mouth of the Ohio to fool the French and Indians of the area who were watching for him, and marched overland from Massac Creek to Kaskaskia, where the fort and town were taken without a casualty. Thus, Clark began his conquest of more territory from the British than any other single person during the Revolution. His exploits gave Clark and the state of Virginia, his sponsor, claim to the entire Northwest Territory, which encompassed all lands east of the Mississippi, north of the Ohio, and south of the Great Lakes eastward to the Appalachian Mountains.