Tri City, Kentucky
Tri City is an unincorporated community in southeastern Graves County. It is marked by highway signs and contains several homes and a handful of small businesses. If it were a town, its…
Splitting Counties in Western Kentucky
Jackson Purchase
You’ve heard of far western Kentucky. It is the section of the state between the Mississippi River and the Tennessee River. However, this part of the state did not become under definitive US control in 1792 when formed. In 1818, Andrew Jackson officially purchased the disputed land from the Chickasaw Indians. The Kentucky part of the sale became known as the Jackson Purchase.