Mayfield, Kentucky Mayfield, Kentucky Location of Mayfield, Kentucky Location of Mayfield, Kentucky Named for Mayfield Creek Mayfield is a home rule-class town/city in Graves County, Kentucky, in the United States.
Mayfield is in the center of the Jackson Purchase, an eight-county region purchased by Isaac Shelby and Andrew Jackson from the Chickasaw citizens in 1818.
Mayfield was established as the governmental center of county of Graves County in 1821, and the county was formally organized in 1823.
John Anderson is believed to have been the first settler, arriving in 1819 and building a log home on Mayfield Creek.
In December 1821, Anderson was appointed county court clerk and moved about two and a half miles to the site that became Mayfield.
According to Trabue Davis, the town's name originates indirectly from a gambler titled Mayfield, who was kidnapped about 1817 at a racetrack near what is now Hickman.
He was carried to the site of today's Mayfield, where he carved his name into a tree in hopes that someone would see it.
He then tried to escape, but he drowned trying to cross what is now called Mayfield Creek.
1906 Broadway looking west, Mayfield, Kentucky The culmination of the Memphis, New Orleans, and Northern Railroad in 1858 connected Mayfield with the outside world.
Beginning with the Mayfield Woolen Mills in 1860, manufacturing clothing became the chief industry in Mayfield for the next hundred years.
During the Civil War, the Jackson Purchase including Mayfield firmly supported the Confederate cause.
The Jackson Purchase has even been called "Kentucky's South Carolina". On May 29, 1861, a group of Southern sympathizers from Kentucky and Tennessee met at the Graves County Courthouse to discuss the possibility of joining the Jackson Purchase to West Tennessee.
In 1907, Fulton County judge Herbert Carr recalled that the Mayfield Convention adopted a resolution for secession, and a historical marker in front of the courthouse now proclaims this as fact.
The Mayfield Convention was followed by the Russellville Convention, which created the provisional Confederate government of Kentucky. The "Mayfield Ten", ten black students from the segregated Dunbar High School, were allowed to register at all-white Mayfield High School in 1956.
In 2000, Mayfield was shocked by the murder of Jessica Currin, a small-town resident.
Mayfield is home to the Wooldridge Monuments, a series of historical monuments positioned in Maplewood Cemetery.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.9 square miles (17.9 km2), of which 0.03 square miles (0.08 km2), or 0.43%, is water. The Purchase Parkway forms a bypass to the northwest of Mayfield, running along or close to the town/city limits.
Route 45 leads north from Mayfield 26 miles (42 km) to Paducah on the Ohio River and southwest to Fulton.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Mayfield has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Even with being in a dry county (Graves), revenue by the drink in restaurants of the town/city limits of Mayfield seating at least 100 diners and at the Mayfield Golf & Country Club are allowed.
There are no Sunday revenue of alcoholic beverages permitted, except at Mayfield Golf and Country Club.
Local media in Mayfield includes the Mayfield Messenger, a three-day (Sunday, Wednesday, Friday) newspaper.
Radio stations WLLE-FM, WNGO-AM, and WYMC-AM are licensed to Mayfield.
Mayfield was home to experienced baseball's minor league Class D Kentucky Illinois Tennessee League (or KITTY League) Mayfield Pantsmakers (1922 24), Mayfield Clothiers (1936 38, 1946 55), and Mayfield Browns (1939 41). The Clothiers were the first team to integrate the Kitty League when they working black and Mayfield native Mickey Stubblefield as a pitcher amid the 1952 season.
Mid-Continent University, formerly Mid-Continent Baptist Bible College, was positioned just north of Mayfield off U.S.
Mayfield Independent City School District was established on July 1, 1908, with the selection and meeting of its first Board Members, organized by Mr.
Mayfield High School has won 12 Kentucky High School Athletic Association football championships in classes A and AA in a total of 21 title game appearances.
Mayfield High School mascot is "Cardinals".
The Graves County High School Co-Ed Cheerleading Team won the titles of National Champions in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 and State Champions in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, 2010, and 2012.
Graves County High School mascot is "Eagles.
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Kentucky League of Cities.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Mayfield city, Kentucky".
"EF3 Tornado Leaves Damage, 10 Injured in Mayfield, Kentucky; Flooding Leads to Water Rescues Near Nashville".
Climate Summary for Mayfield, Kentucky "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
United States Congress.
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1995 answers by Mason to Kentucky high school students "Mickey" "Mayfield Moundsman"".
"The Jackson Purchase Considers Secession: The 1861 Mayfield Convention".
City of Mayfield official website Mayfield and Graves County Chamber of Commerce and Tourism Mayfield Independent Schools Mayfield Graves County Airport Municipalities and communities of Graves County, Kentucky, United States County seats in Kentucky 50 most crowded cities of Kentucky
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