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I've added some sections:
- People from Paducah
- Atractions
I'd like to get with the appropriate Wikiproject for adapting page standards for small towns and cities. I'm working on expanding the History section to include the 1937 flood and some details of Civil War events including the unsuccesful raid on Fort Anderson by Nathan Bedford Forrest.
I'd also like to add something about the Artist Relocation Program and the Visitor's beureau (informational, not promotional) and I'm wondering if there could be a section called for Industry and Commerce where I could mention the USEC facility here, the River and Rail Industry and other key economic factors that describe Paducah a bit more fully.
I would rather do this in a uniform standardized way. Thanks in advance for your input.
- Quinobi 19:59, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Be bold, my fellow Q-person. City standards are still being made up. If what you do is good work, it will become standard, and if not, people will fix it. Don't forget to mention the quilt fair in Paducah -- biggest in the U.S., I believe. – Quadell (talk) (help)[[]] 20:27, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Expanding the Context
Thanks for the encouragement Quadell ! :)
I just went on an made Paducah the Quilt Capital of the Whole World! ;)
I noticed that there are links to some pretty urbane topics that don't resolve. I'm thinking that a progressive history of the US and other contries could be formed superimposed onto a global geo-historical timeline involving things like industrial development, culture, immigration, transport and so forth in a comprehensive user friendly context resolution matrix - Quinobi 17:21, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Oh, never mind Quinobi 21:32, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
- A comprehensive user-friendly context resolution matrix sounds good to me. - CQ 13:57, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Questions
Just happened to be passing through, and after reading this article, I had some unanswered questions:
What is a "platt"? Is this a misspelling of "plot"?
What are the "many waterways" that Paducah is convenient to?
-- Beland 04:41, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Answers
No, I'm recollecting "platt", short for platter I suppose - a whole set of plots, perhaps. The term appears in the mural nearest the Flood wall at the foot of Broadway referring to the drawn plan for laying out Paducah held by Clark. Maybe it's convenient for someone to run down there and check for us right quickly.
Speaking of Convenience, the river system was very convenient for the US government through WWII, the Fifties and Sixties...
Paducah's two main rivers, the Ohio and the Tennessee, have their confluence at the foot of Broadway which also serves as a large public boat ramp stretching east one block to Kentucky Avenue. Somewhere between these two streets and their gates in the floodwall but out in the channel, is mile marker 0 of the Tennessee River which runs south-southeast dividing the Jackson Purchase Region of Kentucky from the rest of the Commonwealth. From there it curves way down through Tennessee into Mississippi, Alabama and back northeast again through Tennessee to it's headwaters in the Appalachian Mountains.
Up the Ohio river just a few miles from the foot of Broadway at Smithland, Kentucky, The Cumberland River which drains the Cumberland Plateau and Nashville, Tennessee spills into the Ohio. The Cumberland and Tennessee are the boundaries of a sparcly-developed tract once called Land Between the Rivers but now called Land Between the Lakes or LBL.
The two lakes were formed when the Corps of Engineers built hydro-electric dams to 'prime the pump' for the United States's Rural Electrification program. The Dams are built at a spot called Grand Rivers, Kentucky where the two rivers were very close together. The presence of large deposits of high-quality white limestone made building the low earthen dams a lucrative proposition for the Department of Energy. Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley are connected together by a short canal which now forms the northern boundary of LBL.
Downstream from Paducah about thirty miles, the Ohio flows into the Mississippi river at Cairo, Illinois. The term Four Rivers region refers to the Ohio, Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumberland which all converge within thirty miles of Paducah.
[edit] Summer Festival
The Paducah Summer Festival has been a part of the city's history for years. If someone is very up on the history and current events of it a section about that might be nice. I personally only know a bit about the cross river swim. Sir hugo 12:07, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Flood Wall
The flood wall has been around since the beginning of the 20th century after the big floods. At the end of the century though murals were added to the wall to make it more glamorous. It would be nice to have information about the history of the wall including a small bit about each mural.Sir hugo 12:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
The flood wall was built over a span of years after the 1937 flood. It seems to work better than the similar ones in New Orleans.Edison 19:54, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Civil War
In the civil war section of this article there was no mention of Llyod Tilghman the last time I read it. This is of some importance since it was his wife that Augusta Tilghman high school was named after. Maybe even a section about Augusta Tilghman and Lincoln High Schools and the eventual merger into Paducah Tilghman might be warrented too. Sir hugo 12:11, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Dippin' Dots
Dippin' Dots is headquartered in Paducah. Shouldn't that be mentioned somewhere in the article? CrossBlade 20:00, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
