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County: McCracken

Wilmington

Marker Number: 

970

Location: 

KY 358 b/w Paducah and Atomic Energy Plant

Site of first McCracken County seat half mile south. Established in 1827, three years after county was formed. Town site covered 102 acres, on which there were only eight buildings. First court held home of Isaac Lovelace; courthouse completed, 1830. Floods caused the removal of county seat to Paducah in 1832. The county records had to be moved to Paducah in a skiff.

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