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Mayfield

Kentucky, United States
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Mayfield, city, seat of Graves county, southwestern Kentucky, U.S., about 25 miles (40 km) west of Kentucky Lake and 25 miles south of Paducah. Mayfield was settled about 1820 and named for a local creek into which, according to legend, a certain George Mayfield had fallen after he was mortally wounded by robbers. The New Orleans and Ohio Railroad (now part of the Paducah & Louisville Railway) arrived in 1854 and boosted Mayfield’s development as...

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