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Hopkins County, the forty-ninth in order of formation, is located in western Kentucky. It
has an area of 552 square miles. The county was created on May 1, 1807 from a portion of
Henderson County and was named for Gen. Samuel Hopkins, a Revolutionary War veteran and
early settler of the region. The county seat is Madisonville.
Some of the early
settlers were veterans of the Revolutionary War who received land grants from Virginia in
the area southwest of the Green River. Among these was Frederick Wilhelm, Baron Von Steuben,
the Prussian general who had instructed the Revolutionary army at Valley Forge in the winter
of 1776-77. According to tradition, the baron was wounded during an Indian attack while on
his first visit and subsequently quit-claimed his property. On his grant of several thousand
acres in the northwest part of the county, a salt spring came to be known as Steuben's Lick.
By the 1880s, the community there was called Manitou.
On January 3, 1829, Ashbyburg
in the northeastern part of the county was incorporated. Located on the Green River, it
thrived as a steamboat landing during the nineteenth century. Other antebellum communities
included Nebo, northwest of Madisonville, and Charleston, named after "Free
Charles," a black freedman who operated a tavern in the southwest part of the county.
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Hopkins County Pages
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HOPKINS COUNTY SURNAMES
CEMETERIES
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CENSUS
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BIRTHS
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DEATHS
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MARRIAGES
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CHURCHES
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CITY DIRECTORIES
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HOPKINS CO. FILE CABINET
- Origins of Hopkins Co
- Hopkins County Legislature, 1815-1875
- Madisonville, 1879
- Kentucky Citizens, January 31, 1863; List of
fines assessed and
collected by military
authorities; endorsed by Lincoln, January 31,
1863; ~ More info on this subject
- Hopkins County Bibles
- Hopkins County Deeds
- Boy Scouts
- Elections
- Registered Physicians, 1893 - 1897
- Gleanings from The Messenger, May 1935
- Guardianship Accts, 1840-46, Index
- Some County Businesses: 2001
~ 2002 ~ 2003 ~ 2004
- 1924 Coal Mines
- Valentine Sweethearts, 1996
- Hopkins Co Folk Lore
- Days Gone By
- Slide Shows
- KY Biographies
- 1807 Tax List
- Property sold for unpaid taxes, 1930
- List of Unclaimed Property, Nov 9,
2003
- Hopkins County Mail List
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NEWSPAPERS
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MILITARY
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SCHOOLS, STUDENTS, etc
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SPORTS
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TOWNS
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KY-FOOTSTEPS
Indexes to data posted for Hopkins Co
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