Paducah, KY, United States
Gunsmith Ferd Hummel. Site of a one-story frame store, Hummel's Gunshop. He came here in 1861. Federal soldiers occupying Paducah in Civil War brought their firearms to him for repair. When the Confederates raided the city, March, 1864, they looted his shop, but he had secreted best arms in his home
. Hummel, continuing as a gunsmith, was granted a patent on a breech-loading firearm in 1881.
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