Nearly 1,000 years ago, Native Americans settled on a large hill overlooking the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. With...
Read MoreFeatures that don’t quite fit anywhere else on our site, but definitely deserve recognition is what Terts & Quats is all about. The phrase derives from tertiary features (Terts) and fourth-importance (quaternary or “Quats”) articles found in publications. Here, it’s just “everything else” and is just as good as the other stuff on Four Rivers Explorer!
Fort Defiance Park
Fort Defiance Park in Cairo, Illinois, marks one of the world’s most important river confluences – the Ohio and Mississippi. On...
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Henrietta County, Kentucky
Did you know Aurora, Kentucky, the little tourist community on Kentucky Lake, almost became the county seat of Henrietta County? What?...
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The Railroad Changed Murray & Calloway County
While writing this feature I channeled my inner Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory), who had a love for trains on...
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Kentucky Lake’s ‘Party Cove’ – The Creation of the Rock Quarry
A favorite among boaters on Kentucky Lake, the Rock Quarry, is also known as the “Party Cove”. Recently we had the...
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Does Elsewhere, Kentucky Exist?
In 2015, Seamus Coffey, a Calloway County, Kentucky resident wrote a sensational horror story on Reddit and on ThoughtCatalog.com about a...
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