On display at the Market House Museum is a beautiful silver service given to the gunboat, the USS Paducah. Consisting of an underplate, the punch bowl, 18 footed cups, and a ladle, the service contains 700 ounces of pure silver and features a 22 karat gold  wash on the interior of the bowl and cups. Around the base of the bowl and on the underplate are engravings of Paducah historic scenes from 1907. The service was presented to the gunboat by the citizens of the town. Schoolchildren raised the money for the commissioning of the service by collecting dimes and nickles, door to door. The ship was commissioned in 1905, and a formal presentation of the service took place in 1907, with the daughter of Mayor Yeiser being the presentee and ship's sponsor. The designs for the ladle and cups was executed by a Paducah jeweler, Mr Wolff. The underplate and bowl were created by a Northern jeweler. The ship's rudder wheel, its fog bell (inscribed 1905) and a light from the ship's deck are also on display.