Open for business. Historical Society launches new era

Mary Potter, West Kentucky Journal


Open for business. Historical Society launches new era

Packed on a flatbed trailer - books and history in February 2013.

From packed on the bottom of a flatbed trailer to standing proudly side by side, marriage bonds in over sized books have come a long way in time but a few short blocks in distance from their old home to the new.

The Hickman County Historical & Genealogical Society hosted over sixty guests on Saturday, April 26, 2014. With Chicken Festival activities in full swing across the street, Society members showed guests around their expanded facilities. Hickman District Judge Hunter Whitesell and local newsman and historian Jerrald Chandler visited during the event. Chandler was extensively quoted in the most recent historical society book “The Golden Age of Hickman County.”

Also visiting was Ella VanHorn, below right, with her grandparents Tommy and Sheri Roberts. Ella made sure that Grandma Sheri didn’t let go of her hand during the visit - except to snack on a cookie.

On Friday, Society President Ivan Potter hosted a WPSD Local 6 television team, regaling Elizabeth Fields and a WPSD cameraman with stories of how the miracle of going from a fallen building to a new home in a little over a year came about. Potter even took the crew to the hole in the ground that was once the Hickman County Historical & Genealogical Society’s home.

The journey from fallen building to flatbed trailer to a new home is a chapter in the story of the Hickman County Historical & Genealogical Society, an organization dedicated to the preservation of history in the Jackson Purchase.