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A Little Slice of History Boggess Chevrolet Company

 

 Hopkins County Kentucky- Madisonville, Ky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boggess Chevrolet Company
52 North Franklin Street
(1958 Impala convertible in show window)

 

 

 

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Early Underground Mining

Early Underground Mining in Hopkins County by J Harold Utley Hopkins County KY Historian.   Little is known of the early history of Hopkins County except that in 1775 Colonel Richard Henderson, in the name of his company, Transylvanian Land Company, bought what is now Hopkins County from the Cherokee Indians. The Commonwealth of Virginia passed laws nullifying his treaty with the Indians. As compensation for his efforts Virginia gave him 10,000 acres of land in what is now Henderson County.

 

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Charles E Sebree History

History of Charles E Sebree nationally renown artist born in Madisonville KY by Harold Utley.  (August 14, 1914 – September 27, 1985)

And Jesus said unto them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and his own house.”
KJV Matt 13:57

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Lonesome Dove, Hopkins County Connection

Lonesome Dove-Hopkins County Connection...did you know that this historical event originated here?  

 
 

By J Harold Utley, Hopkins County Historian. 

 

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Frontier Justice

 

Hopkins County Historical Society:  FRONTIER JUSTICE, By J Harold Utley Hopkins County Historian. A little more than 3 miles north of Dixon, on the west side of U S41A is a historical marker with the title “Frontier Justice”. There have been perhaps more newspaper articles, stories, legends and tall tales told about the story behind this marker than any other in western Kentucky.ee.)

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Early Strip Mining in Hopkins County

 

 

   by J Harold Utley 

 
            The first written reference to coal in the United States was in 1679 when Father Hennepin, a French Jesuit Missionary, recorded the site of a “cole mine” on the Illinois River near the present site of Ottawa IL. On April13, 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first representative of the Caucasian race to record the discovery of coal in Kentucky.1

 

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