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(AP) — Cross over the old Louisville & Nashville Railroad in this town remembered for its Civil War encampment and you'll see the first signs — there's fresh anticipation in the rural areas that will be prime viewing locations for the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse to sweep the United States in 99 years. Tens of thousands of people — estimates reach 100,000 people from as far as Japan and South Africa — will watch the eclipse from the area, and that has communities small and large bracing for an influx that could put a strain on resources and infrastructure. Hopkinsville, a city of about 32,000 people and the birthplace of the "sleeping prophet" Edgar Cayce, is nearest the point of greatest eclipse — as the axis of the moon's shadow cone passes closest to Earth's center. Hopkinsville is in the area that will be getting the longest total eclipse — at 1:24 p.m.

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