Editing Princeton, Kentucky (section)

===Night Riders and Black Patch Festival===
[[File:Amoss House.jpg|thumb|Amoss House, home of Dr. David Amoss, leader of the Night Riders]]

Rich in Southern culture much like the rest of Western Kentucky. Every September, Princeton hosts the Black Patch Festival in its historic downtown. Up to 65 booths feature a variety of festival foods, games and activities. One of the highlights of the Black Patch Festival each year is the [[gospel music|gospel]] concert held at the Princeton First Baptist Church.

The festival is named after the unique variety of "Black Patch" [[tobacco]] grown in the surrounding areas of western Kentucky and northwest [[Tennessee]]. Tobacco was at the center of one of the largest civil uprisings in American history.

By the start of the 20th century, an agricultural boom in dark leaf tobacco had made Caldwell County, along with [[Christian County, Kentucky|Christian County]], a major tobacco growing area. However, the monopolization of the tobacco market by [[James B. Duke]] left many farmers in debt. A vigilante force called [[the Night Riders]] was formed to combat the Duke monopoly and terrorized those who cooperated with the tobacco company by destroying crops, burning warehouses, and even physical intimidation.

On December 1, 1906, the Night Riders raided Princeton and burned the largest tobacco factories in the world.