Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County

Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County

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The Pennyroyal Area Museum in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is in the middle of the great rugged plain that slopes from the Appalachian Mountains in the East...

We don’t know when the first people walked through this land or who first called it home. Stone tools and other remains have been found...

English explorers, long hunters, and merchants came into Kentucky from the original 13 American colonies when they learned about the Cumberland Gap — the easiest...

The Pennyroyal Area Museum in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is in the heart of the Black Patch, an agricultural region named for its unique and far-reaching crop...

Abraham Lincoln“I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.” The Civil War was fought for four years, from April 12,...

Farming is a profession of individual responsibility and calculated risk, and the stakes were never as high as during the Black Patch War. The powerful...

Christian County native, Edgar Cayce demonstrated psychic abilities and an interest in healing and spiritual scholarship at a young age, and went on to become...

Fort Campbell, positioned over the border of Kentucky and Tennessee, 20 miles south of the Pennyroyal Area Museum in Hopkinsville, has one of the largest...

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