Highways leading to Leitchfield will soon have new signs welcoming visitors and residents to the city.

When the Leitchfield Woman’s Club got the money back they had pledged to the now defunct Healthplex they wanted to do something for the City of Leitchfield.

“We were going to do something to decorate the Square but the Master Gardener’s did that,” said Leitchfield Woman’s Clubs Second Vice President Dot McCall. “So we decided to replace the signs on every main artery.”

Although replacing the old purple signs with larger more attractive signs is a community project initiated and led by the Woman’s Club some funding is coming from for the signs is coming form the city of Leitchfield and other service organizations of the community.

The Woman’s Club is thought to be the oldest service organization in Leitchfield. It was organized in 1928 by 70 charter woman of the community. The object of the club was to secure closer contact among the woman of the community for the purpose of broadening their interests and improving the community.

With that in mind, the club has been involved in many projects over the years. They were very instrumental in the purchase and the maintenance of the Historical Jack Thomas House, home of the club meeting.

In addition to the sign project there are many other ongoing projects and interests including the Georgia Sisks Nursing Scholarship, Poinsettia sales for the purpose of providing shoes to the needy children of Grayson County schools, providing periodic gifts to residents of the counties two nursing homes, contributing to the Domestic Violence Program, Halloween Safe Spot, Operation Prom, support to the Grayson County Public Library, staffing the Arts Building/Arts Display at the Grayson County Fair, Supporting the Muscular Dystrophy and other projects as presents to the club.