$5 Bought Paducah - Paducah, Kentucky
Posted by: BruceS
N 37° 05.266 W 088° 35.727
16S E 358201 N 4105799
Historical marker commemorating the purchase of the land which included what was to become Paducah.
Waymark Code: WM6EQN
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 05/22/2009
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Text of marker:
$5 Bought Paducah
In 1827, Gen. Wm. Clark purchased 37,000 acres of land, including the site on which Paducah now stands, for $5. This land, part of a Revolutionary War grant to his brother, George Rogers Clark, was secured from George Woolfolk, of Louisville, who had been named administrator of George Rogers Clark's estate when he died.