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Its county seat is Mayfield. [2] The county was formed in 1824 and was named for Major Benjamin Franklin Graves, a politician and fallen soldier in the War of 1812. Graves County comprises the Mayfield, KY Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL Combined Statistical Area.
Mayfield Independent City School District was established on July 1, 1908, with the selection and meeting of its first Board Members, organized by Mr. W.J. Webb. [28] Mayfield High School has won 13 Kentucky High School Athletic Association football championships in classes A and AA in a total of 25 title game appearances. As of 2023, Mayfield ...
Ridgely family of Maryland and Delaware; Cleo Ridgely (1893–1962), film star; Charles Ridgely (disambiguation), the name of several people; Edwin R. Ridgely (1844–1927), U.S. Representative from Kansas; Eliza Ridgely (1803–1867), American heiress; Henry M. Ridgely (1779–1847), American lawyer and U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator ...
Fancy Farm is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Graves County, Kentucky, United States, [2] 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the county seat, Mayfield. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 403. [3] Fancy Farm is on Kentucky Route 80 in the rural, far-western portion of the state called the Jackson Purchase.
The town was established on May 13, 1867, by the Maryland and Baltimore Land Association. [1] The land around present day Ridgely was purchased by the Maryland and Baltimore Land Association from Thomas Bell and the Reverend Greenbury W. Ridgely (2 May 1798-16 Aug 1883) .
Ridgely is located at (36.264559, -89.482668). [5] The town is situated southwest of Reelfoot Lake and east of the Mississippi River. State Route 78 traverses Ridgely, connecting the town with Tiptonville to the north and Dyersburg to the south.
The Confederate Memorial Gates in Mayfield are historical monuments at the entrances to Maplewood Cemetery in Mayfield, Kentucky. The monuments were the second monument in Mayfield established by the United Daughters of the Confederacy; the first being the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield in downtown Mayfield. The gates were the third choice ...
Representatives from seven western Kentucky counties and twenty western Tennessee counties met at Mayfield in May 1861 to discuss forming a new state that would join the Confederacy. The secession of Tennessee on June 8, 1861, caused the proposal to be abandoned, [ 3 ] In 1864 Union forces occupied the town and forced the townspeople to help ...