We stopped in Loretta for lottery tickets before beginning our journey to Hopkinsville, KY.
We were traveling I-24 past the Nissan Stadium, Home of the Tennessee Titans, around a quarter till eleven.
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| Nissan Stadium, Home of the Tennessee Titans |
Kentucky is known for its thoroughbred racing tracks and Kentucky Bourbon Trails, and we saw a little of both here.
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| Horse Racing and Kentucky Bourbon |
The girl who waited for us was very busy, and it seemed to take quite a while to get our food.
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| Cod Fish with chips, coleslaw, and tater sauce The fish was tough, and the breading was not done on the inside, but it did look good. When cooked right, it is delicious. |
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| The real American Roadhouse Hopkinsville, Ky |
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| Pennyroyal Area Museum on Ninth Street. |
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| Former United States Post Office Building, now PennyRoyal Museum |
We were greeted by the curator, who was eating her lunch. We paid the small admission price, and the curator gave us a short history of the PennyRoyal Museum.
She said the museum was a former Post Office, and it still had windows where people would send packages and purchase stamps.
She also said that we could send a postcard to someone or to ourselves, put it in the mailbox on the table, and they would stamp it.
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| Don't forget to send a postcard and put it in the mailbox here. |
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| Pioneer Life in Hopkinsville |
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| Behind the loom was a quilt telling the history of Hopkinsville 25th Annual Quilt Show Hopkinsville Heritage Quilt Quiltmakers Designed by Dixie Thomas pieced by Kathy Croft Quilted by Edna Baker, Linnie Wallis, Kathy Croft, Nell Young & Betty Young |
Downstairs, we saw a York Square Grand Piano 1870 made by Weaver Piano and Organ Company and a Winton Upright Piano, 1920 made in Chicago, Il.
We saw local notables such as Billy Boley, the Ventriloquist.
We saw Robin Penn Warren, the National Poet, and several displays about Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows.
We saw The Mechanical Wonder Horse, ridden by three generations of children from 1907 to 1994.
We saw a display of the Brook Memorial Hospital and Doctor Phillip C. Brooks.
We saw a hand-carved wooden display about the Trail of Tears by George Barrette Floyd.
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| Wooden Carved replica of the Trail of Tears |
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| Display about Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet http://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/the-life-and-times-of-edgar-cayce.aspx |
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| The Kelly Encounter (Little Green Men) The Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter was a claimed close encounter with extraterrestrial beings in 1955 near Kelly and Hopkinsville in Christian County, Kentucky, United States. UFOlogists regard it as one of the most significant and well-documented cases in the history of UFO incidents, while skeptics say the reports were due to "the effects of excitement" and misidentification of natural phenomena such as meteors and owls. Psychologists have used the alleged incident as an academic example of pseudoscience to help students distinguish truth from fiction. |
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| The Tobacco War 1904-1911 http://www.nkyviews.com/Other/text/text_night_rider_movement.html |
There is a story behind each display that could be told.
I bought three postcards, and we paid $2 each to visit the Transportation Museum.
The Transportation Museum was located across the street from the Pennyroyal Museum. It was once a Fire Station.
There was a crew of men working on the roof, and they were repairing the Clocktower. (Many years ago, the Captain's room caught fire and burned the first clock tower, which was larger than the one now on top of the firehouse.)
The firehouse was built before automobiles, and the first fire truck was pulled by horses.
The curator said
We have the first (Auto) fire truck ever used by the fire department
It was bought by a former firefighter, and he restored it to its glory days.
He gave the town the firetruck when he found out the town was opening a Transportation Museum inside the old firehouse.
The firehouse was built before automobiles, and the first fire truck was pulled by horses.
The curator said
We have the first (Auto) fire truck ever used by the fire department
It was bought by a former firefighter, and he restored it to its glory days.
He gave the town the firetruck when he found out the town was opening a Transportation Museum inside the old firehouse.
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| First Gasoline-powered Fire Truck and Dalmatian |
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| The Clock Tower is being repaired. |
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| Firemen's hats |
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| Miniature Train Display and another fire truck. |
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| The Casey Jones Distillery |
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| Grape, Peach, and Apple Casey's Cut Casey's Moonshine, Barrel Cut, and Total Eclipse Moonshine. Lights Out |
We were shown how the Moonshine was made and how it was bottled.
There was a wedding later that day at the distillery.
Many different events happen here, including the upcoming Total Eclipse on August 21, 2017.
The weekend of August 18 in Hopkinsville is the place to be for the greatest view of the total eclipse.
There will be music, vendors, hot air balloon rides, and much more.
Our next stop was the Commemorative Trail of Tears Park.
Inside the small cabin, we meet a Cherokee Indian Woman.
She told us how this very spot was a chosen way to stop for the Indians on the Trail of Tears.
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| The nine flags representing the states of the Trail of Tears Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. The removal of the Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole https://www.britannica.com/event/Trail-of-Tears |
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| Commemorative Trail of Tears Cabin |
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| Statues at the Trail of Tears |
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| Chick-fil-a Hopkinsville KY |
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| Peach Milkshake (my favorite), Chicken strips, and Lemonade |
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| Our next stop was the Fort Campbell Memorial Park. |
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| As we traveled through Nashville, we encountered work traffic. |
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| The sunset on the clouds as we encountered our last mile home around 8PM |
