Four Rivers Explorer loves to showcase old towns and villages, some of which may not exist anymore. They have a history – some good, some bad, but all with a worthwhile story to share.
Early settlers in Calloway County founded one of the first towns in the county known as “Callaway”. The Kentucky General Assembly officially incorporated Callaway on February 6, 1837. Trustees named…
As you drive down Kentucky 464 in northwestern Calloway County, the road drops down a steep hill and crosses a creek before running across fields flat as paper. Unless you’re…
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. …
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…
