Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Princeton, KY

Princeton is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Caldwell County in western Kentucky.

The settlement began as Eddy Grove, named for a large whirling spring at the head of Eddy Creek, where Revolutionary War veteran William Prince settled in 1799 on a 1,700-acre Virginia land grant and built a brick home and tavern called Shandy Hall.

In 1817 Prince's heirs and landowner Thomas Frazier granted 40 acres so the Caldwell County seat could move from Eddyville, and the new town was named Princetown for William Prince, a name soon shortened to Princeton; the town was formally established on December 6, 1820, and incorporated in 1854.

The population of Princeton was 6,270 at the 2020 census, living in 2,647 households, with 3,058 housing units in the city.

Princeton covers about 9.01 square miles, and Interstate 69 runs along its northern edge with access from exits 79 and 81, while U.S. Route 62 passes through the city center.

During the Cherokee removal of 1838-39, eleven of the thirteen Ross detachments on the Trail of Tears passed through Princeton and stopped at Big Spring, a large natural spring in the heart of downtown that is now preserved as Big Spring Park, a certified Trail of Tears site.

In December 1864, Confederate cavalry under General Hylan B. Lyon raided Princeton and burned the Caldwell County courthouse, which was serving as a Union garrison.

Princeton stood at the center of the Black Patch Tobacco Wars, and on December 1, 1906, Night Riders raided the town and burned what were then the largest tobacco factories in the world; the city still celebrates the era each September with the Black Patch Festival in its historic downtown.

Since 1925 Princeton has housed the University of Kentucky Research and Education Center, an agricultural research campus of the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture, whose botanical garden is a local attraction.

The Adsmore Museum on North Jefferson Street is Kentucky's only living history home museum, reflecting the life of the Smith-Garrett family at the close of the Victorian era.