History

Paducah Tilghman and Mayfield High School celebrate 100 years of hard hits, big plays, tough tackles, one-sided wins, tremendous touchdowns, fabulous field goals, gridiron greats, and trash talk as part of one of Kentucky’s most long-standing football rivalries

Derek Landy once said, “Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.” For the Paducah Chamber of Commerce and Paducah Economic Development, the distance was .2 miles.

On fourth street near the edge of downtown stands a long, narrow, two-story brick building marked by a well-preserved sign reading PADUCAH BEAUTY SCHOOL. Not much can be seen through its first floor window, but five days a week the building is a-buzz with students learning to bend, twist, cut, and curl hair.

The title Duke of Paducah means diferent things to different people. For one group of young men in WWII, it meant a bond of friendship and the ravages of war that would change them forever.