Paducah, KY, United States
$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 Ge
orge Rogers Clark's estate when he died. Marker presented by Hart's Bread, 1967.
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