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- Hopkinsville Submits Ideas For Job Creation To President-Elect
President-elect Barack Obama has set an ambitious goal to help turn around the economy.
- Winter Weather Advisory For Several Counties
Weather forecasters say patches of freezing rain and sleet are moving into western Kentucky on Monday afternoon.
- Freezing Rain Moving Into Western Ky.
Weather forecasters said patches of freezing rain and sleet are moving into Western Kentucky on Monday afternoon.
- Dept. of Highways engineer's career leaves imprint on landscape
HOPKINSVILLE - Ted Merryman, one of the supervising engineers of Interstate 24's construction through Christian County, plans to retire from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Department of Highways at the ...
- Santa greets troops
"That's cool," said Pfc. Christopher Comandao, after Santa shook his hand and thanked him for his service.
- Fly Fishers give scholarship
The Louisville-based Derby City Fly Fishers awarded a $500 scholarship grant to Hopkinsville native Parker Bradley during the club's December meeting last week.
- Key Legislator's "Date" Gets Job Despite Hiring Freeze
FRANKFORT a ' The Cabinet for Health and Family Services created a $63,000 job earlier this year for a woman who had dated a key lawmaker who helps oversee the cabinet, reports the Lexington Herald-Leader in ...
- Kentucky Man Dies in Collision With Train
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky.- We now know the name of the man killed when he collided with a train in Kentucky Saturday night.
- Health services budget woes outlined
More than $1 million in grants to grandparents raising their grandkids and $1.5 million to local health departments would be slashed to make up for a state government shortfall under a proposal unveiled ...
- Kentucky rule change has CEO, others leaving NorthKey
NorthKey Community Care , which provides mental health, developmental disability and substance abuse care throughout Northern Kentucky, is losing its CEO and other high-level staff.
- OPD Looks For Violent Criminal From Hopkinsville
Owensboro Police say a man wanted by authorities in southern Kentucky may be in the city, and could be armed & dangerous.
- Winter Driving Alert Issued for Western KY
Traffic Advisory The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet is gearing up for a round of winter weather across Western Kentucky.
- Freudenberg To Form Independent Filter Biz
Freudenberg Nonwovens was at Filtration 2008 touting a prime booth location at the exhibition entrance as well as the upcoming launch of its Filtration Division as an independent business group within the ...
- "Making Age an Asset in Your Job Search" Offered Online by HCC
Hopkinsville Community College has partnered with ed2go to launch a new noncredit online course designed to help people over 50 be more successful in the job market.
- Express route to Nashville area; parkway project okayed
The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has awarded a $40 million contract to complete the extension of the Ned Breathitt Pennyrile Parkway to Interstate 24, south of Hopkinsville.
- Thousands of Kentucky jobless may receive extension of benefits
Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 6--More than 10,500 Kentuckians who have exhausted their 26 weeks of regular unemployment checks plus 13 weeks of extended benefits may be eligible for another seven weeks of ...
- Police Say Man Flees Deputy, Kills Himself
Police say a western Kentucky man suspected of stealing duck decoys fatally shot himself after fleeing from a sheriff's deputy.
- Rotary Scholars Tally Now a Quarter Million Dollars
A tuition-free college education for Christian County residents at Hopkinsville Community College took a giant step forward today.
- TN man dies in Hopkinsville cave collapse
A Tennessee man has died after a cave collapsed in western Kentucky while he was digging for Native American artifacts.
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City DescriptionHopkinsville is a city in Christian County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 30,089 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Christian County.
Hopkinsville was settled in 1796 by Bartholomew and Martha Ann Wood, a couple from Jonesborough, Tennessee. The Wood family established a permanent settlement in the vicinity of present-day West Seventh and Bethel Streets, near what would become known as the Old Rock Spring. Wood staked a claim, based on his service in the American Revolutionary War, on 1,200 acres (5 km) of land. He built a second cabin on what is now the northeast corner of Ninth and Virginia streets and a few years later built a home southeast of Fourteenth and Campbell streets, where he died in 1827. Wood's settlement soon attracted other settlers, and a pioneer village emerged.
Wood donated five acres of land and a half interest in his spring for the county seat. The following year a log courthouse, jail, and "stray pen" were built on the public square facing Main Street. The plat for the town, first called Christian Court House, was surveyed by John Campbell and Samuel Means in 1799. In honor of Wood's eldest daughter, the town was renamed Elizabeth that ... Read MoreCity Contained By:City Contains:- Hopkinsville Community College
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