Two hundred years ago, the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky had only one county. Hickman County spanned across all the entire area, from the Mississippi River to the Tennessee River. …
Looking at the featured photo of this article, you might think it’s just another cemetery. However, today’s Camp Beauregard cemetery has dystopian Civil War roots of disease and depression. Up…
A large landowner with several slaves ran a store in southwestern Graves County in the 1820s. Two of his slave girls both wanted the same man and grew jealous of…
Most of today’s towns and cities in the Four Rivers Region played second fiddle to others two centuries ago, living in the shadows of other fledging pioneer towns. Today’s three…
