Augusta Tilghman High School | Market House Museum

Paducah had an 1956 Centennial Celebration, in which women wore styles from the 1856 time period, and men wore goatees and beards, stovepipe hats and string neckties. A parade and week long celebration was conducted. A Centennial Committee was selected from leading business persons and civic leaders, and a Centennial program book was published reflecting the event and Paducah's historical past. If you have 1950's vintage photos in your family album, and the men are wearing string ties, sporting beards and tophats....chances are, they participated in Paducah's Centennial celebration!


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	Archive Photos Augusta Tilghman high school seen here shortly after being built in 1921. Notice the auditorium had not yet been added onto the right side of the building. The sons of General Lloyd Tilghman donated the property and the school was named after the wife of the General. » Thumbnail	Paducah had an 1956 Centennial Celebration, in which women wore styles from the 1856 time period, and men wore goatees and beards, stovepipe hats and string neckties. A parade and week long celebration was conducted. A Centennial Committee was selected from leading business persons and civic leaders, and a Centennial program book was published reflecting the event and Paducah's historical past. If you have 1950's vintage photos in your family album, and the men are wearing string ties, sporting beards and tophats....chances are, they participated in Paducah's Centennial celebration!