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Murray, KY - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Murray  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Murray Home page. The Murray Home page provides as much information as possible on Murray. Knowing Murray’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Murray’s Home page, you will also find Murray’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Murray has a population of 19254. 49.8% of Murray’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.2 are female. 34.2% of Murray is married and 41.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $159,639, and the average rent is $674. Household median income in Murray is $31,827, and the individual median income is $15,349. Murray’s Ethnic is the following: White(86.7%), Black(6.4%), Multiple(3.8%), Hispanic(2.9%), Asian(2.3%), Other(0.7%).


Kentucky did not officially secede from the Union during the Civil War, instead declaring its neutrality, but both Murray and Calloway County were strongly pro-Confederate. No major battles were fought near the town, but guerrilla warfare sometimes took place nearby. In the spring of 1862, a Union force stationed in Paducah marched across the county to the Tennessee River, taking anything it wanted from the inhabitants without paying.


Also, parts of Murray were burned on several occasions. Once, part of the town was burned by the Union Army in retaliation for its presumed support for the Confederate guerrillas. A diary kept by Josh Ellison of Murray tells that one night during the winter of 1864-65, a detachment of Union soldiers from Paducah torched every building on the east side of the court square, and three days later burned all those north of the square.An estimated 800 men from the area joined in the Confederate Army, either as infantry in the Kentucky Orphan Brigade or in the cavalry.


About 200 sided with the Union. Calloway County's Confederate veterans are honored by a monument on the northeast side of the court house square. The Confederate Monument was donated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and has been subject to calls for removal most recently in 2020. The courthouse grounds on which the statue stands belongs to Calloway County and the County Court voted unanimously in 2020 to keep the statue rather than relocate it from courthouse grounds.


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