Owensboro history

Owensboro is an open book. Much of its history is well-known to its residents, but there are 10 fascinating tidbits that may have escaped our memory banks.

A sweet look back at one of Owensboro most beloved bakeries.

It's a fun exercise. And it was even MORE fun to hear some names and places that hadn't come up in decades.

The Big Dipper is an Owensboro icon, but some of you may not realize JUST how long it's been here.

Here are 25 original newspaper ads from stores and businesses that were there in the early days of Owensboro's Wesleyan Park Plaza.

Hard to believe 2001 was 20 years ago. But it was fun remembering what the city was up to back then.

In 1969, Owensboro photographer Moneta Sleet Jr. became the first Black man to win a Pulitzer Prize--for his iconic photo of Coretta Scott King at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's funeral.

If you're a part of Generation X and an Owensboroan, you GOTTA remember this stuff.