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Eddyville is a home rule-class city [4] in and the county seat of Lyon County, Kentucky, United States. [5] The population was 2,554 at the 2010 census , [ 6 ] up from 2,350 in 2000. The Kentucky State Penitentiary is located at Eddyville.
Lyon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,680. [1] Its county seat is Eddyville. [2] The county was formed from Caldwell County, Kentucky in 1854 and named for former Congressman Chittenden Lyon. [3] [4]
The Old Eddyville Historic District, located off KY 730 in Eddyville, Kentucky, is an 11 acres (4.5 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. It included 13 contributing buildings .
The Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP), also known as the "Castle on the Cumberland", is a maximum security and supermax prison with capacity for 856 prisoners located in Eddyville, Kentucky on Lake Barkley on the Cumberland River, about 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) from downtown Eddyville. [1] It is managed by the Kentucky Department of Corrections ...
Kentucky Route 293 (KY 293) is a 38.267-mile-long (61.585 km) state highway in Kentucky that runs from Kentucky Routes 93 and 1055 southeast of Eddyville to Kentucky Route 270 northeast of Providence via Princeton and Providence.
As with the formation of Kentucky Lake, communities were flooded in the 1960s to build Lake Barkley. Locals often refer to "Old Eddyville" for Eddyville and "Old Kuttawa" for Kuttawa. The "Old" areas were the portions of the cities that were left above the water after the areas were flooded; these old areas are now lakefront.
Perry grew up in Eddyville, Kentucky and attended Lyon County High School. [1] He began playing for Lyon County's varsity basketball team while he was in the seventh grade. [2] Perry was named Kentucky Mr. Basketball after averaging 32.2 points, 6.2 rebounds, 5.8 assists, and 4.7 steals per game as a senior. [3]
This is a list of people executed in Kentucky. Since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the United States in 1976, three people have been executed in Kentucky. All three were executed for murder. All of the executions occurred at the Kentucky State Penitentiary (KSP) in Eddyville. [1]