1929 Map of Paducah

About this map

Paducah serves as the dominant hub at the confluence of the Ohio River and Tennessee River, depicted here as a dense grid of urban growth surrounded by specialized early 20th-century institutions and scattered rural settlements. The infrastructure of the era is anchored by the Illinois Central RR and the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Ry, which facilitated the movement of goods across the state line into Illinois via Brookport and Metropolis. Beyond the city center, the map reveals a landscape transitioning from the industrial riverfront to agricultural and residential outskirts like Lone Oak and Evandale Heights.