Wall To Wall: Portrait of Our Past Murals in Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah: Wall To Wall

Portraits of Our Past

decorate a section of

floodwall in the City.

The Tennesee & Ohio Rivers

converge here.

Removable Floodgates fit

into the angled slots in

the Floodwall.

Sixty panels display the History of Paducah and the people who live(d) here.  I am sharing a small selection of artwork here.

Paducah's Switchboard

Operators connected the

City to the rest of the

world.

Scenes of the 1913 Flood

The Market House was built in 

1850 & is listed on the National 

Registry of Historic Places.

1873 Birdseye Map

of Paducah

Birdseye Maps were popular works of art in many homes after the Civil War. 

Ship Building & Repair are

major industries here.

Murals of the area's

first inhabitants

Walking on the Ohio River

in early 1938.

The Paducah Ambassadors

program was inaugurated

in 1996.

An Ambassador chatted with us about meeting ships that dock here.  American Cruise Companies and Viking Cruises cruise the Ohio River and stop at Paducah.

100 Years of Boy Scout History

is represented here.

A Carnegie Library opened

in Paducah in 1904.

It has grown into the McCracken

County Public Library.

Union Labor built Paducah.

Welcome to the Atomic City.

Paducah has a Uranium

Enrichment Plant.

The railroad provided expansion for Kentucky businesses and agriculture.  Peducah was the regional railroad hub in Western Kentucky. 

This is the 1923 Mikado 1518

Steam Engine pulling a

Baggage-Mail Car.

The Mikado 1518's

Red Caboose.