Howel, Kentucky

Howel was a Christian county community about 12 miles south of Hopkinsville. There was settlement in the area in the early nineteenth century, but the town was established circa 1886 on the new Indiana, Alabama, and Texas Railroad and named for Archer Howell, a stockholder in the railroad, although the spelling was changed. In 1887 the rail line became part of the Clarksville and Princeton Branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The line was abandoned in the twentieth century and nothing remains of the town. Howel was never incorporated. The Howel post office opened in 1886 and closed circa 1957.

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