Princeton (Kentucky)

Princeton is a town in the Western Waterlands of Kentucky.

Understand
Princeton has the typical sort of Kentucky town history: Revolutionary war figure is granted lands in return for his military service, figure in turn sells/gives lots of land to create town, town is squabbled over by Civil War forces while locals are divided over their allegiances, town grows up to its modern day counterpart. This one also had some tobacco crop turf battles too, but that is sort of the story in a nutshell.

Get in
It's right off of I-69, and less than an hour east of Paducah by car.

Get around
With only 6,000 or so people, Princeton is pretty cohesive and can be walked, but there is stuff outside the town limits.

Do

 * Eddie Pennington Festival, a popular summer music festival featuring folk music and thumbpicking in particular, a la Merle Travis or Chet Atkins.

Sleep

 * Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park, see above, is a super place to stay with all the nature and recreation at hand. Plus it has an enticing swimming pool.