History lesson on Kentucky (and general guide ammended)

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Subject: History lesson on Kentucky

Another little bit of history: Kentucky has always been known for its beautiful women, and
fast horses, or is it the other way around ???

History Lesson on Kentucky
For those of you who live in Kentucky you might find this interesting. And for those of you who don't, YOU might also find this interesting.


Today's history lesson!
1792 - Kentucky was the first state on the western frontier to join the Union


1816 - (first promoted) Mammoth Cave , with 336+ miles of mapped passages, is the world's longest cave. It is 379 feet deep and contains at least 5 levels of passages. It's second only to Niagara Falls as the most popular tourist attraction in the US . It became a National Park on July 1, 1941.



1856 - The first enamel bathtub was made in Louisville



1883 - The first electric light bulb was shown in Louisville . Thomas Alva Edison introduced his invention to crowds at the Southern Exposition.



1887 - Mother's Day was first observed in Henderson by teacher Mary S. Wilson. It became a national holiday in 1916.



1893 - 'Happy Birthday to You', probably the most sung song in the world, was written by two Louisville sisters - Mildred and Patricia Hill.



Late 19th century- Bibb lettuce was first cultivated by Jack Bibb in Frankfort , Kentucky



1896 - The first (known) set of all male quintuplets was born in Paducah .



1934 - Cheeseburgers were first tasted at Kaelin's Restaurant in Louisville .



1937 - The first Wigwam Village Motel, with units in the shape of a 'teepee', was built by Frank A. Redford in Cave City .



The world's largest baseball bat, a full one hundred twenty (120) feet tall and weighing 68,000 pounds, can be seen at the Louisville Slugger Museum in Louisville (Jefferson Co.).



Chevrolet Corvettes are manufactured only in Bowling Green .



Covington (St. Mary's Cathedral-Basilica of the Assumption) is home to the world's largest hand blown stained glass window in existence. It measures an astounding 24 feet by 67 feet and contains 117 different figures.



The world's largest crucifix, standing at sixty (60) feet tall, is in Bardstown (Nelson Co.).



Fort Knox holds more than $6 billion worth of gold - the largest amount stored anywhere in the world.



The JIF plant in Lexington is the world's largest peanut butter producing facility.



Kentucky has more resort parks than any other state in the nation.



Middlesboro is the only United States city built inside a meteor crater.



Newport is home to The World Peace Bell, the world's largest free-swinging bell.



Pike County is the world's largest producer of coal.



Pikeville annually leads the nation (per capita) in consumption of Pepsi-Cola.



Post-It Notes are made exclusively in Cynthiana , Ky.



Shaker Village ( Pleasant Hill ) is the largest historic community of its kind in the United States .



Christian County is "wet", while Bourbon County is 'dry'. ("wet" sells liquor; "dry" does not)



Barren County has the most fertile land in the state.



Lake Cumberland has more miles of shoreline than the state of Florida .



Kentucky is best known for its beautiful blue grass. And, let us not forget about the basketball and the Race Horses !!



2010. Jenkins becomes famous for changing its name to 'Whoville.'



And then there more interesting things about this state..............
For example, below are some "rules for rural Kentucky ".

THE RULES OF RURAL Kentucky ARE AS FOLLOWS:

Listen up City Slickers!

1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.

2. Turn your cap right, your head isn't crooked.

3. Let's get this straight; it's called a 'dirt road.' I drive a pickup truck because I want to. No matter how slow you drive, you're going to get dust on your Lexus.
Drive it or get out of the way.

4. They are cattle. They're live steaks. That's why they smell funny to you. But they smell like money to us. Get over it. Don't like it? Rt. 80 goes east and west,
I-75 goes north and south. Pick one.

5. So you have a $60,000 car. We're impressed. We have $150,000 corn pickers and hay balers that are driven only 3 weeks a year.

6. So every person in Southern Kentucky waves. It's call ed being friendly. Try to understand the concept.

7. If that cell phone rings while an 8-point buck and 3 does are coming in, we WILL shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don't have it up to your ear at the time.

8. Yeah, we eat taters & gravy, beans & cornbread. You really want sushi & caviar? It's available, at the corner bait shop.

9. The 'Opener' refers to the first day of deer season. It's a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.

10. We open doors for women. That is applied to all women, regardless of age.

11. No, there's no 'vegetarian special' on the menu. Order steak. Or you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham & turkey.

12. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup. Oh, yeah.... We don't care what you folks in Cincinnati call that stuff you eat... IT AIN'T REAL CHILI!!

13. You bring 'coke' into my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice.

14. You bring 'Mary Jane' into my house, she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.

15. College and High School Football is as important here as the Lakers and the Knicks, and a dang site more fun to watch.

16. Yeah, we have golf courses. But don't hit the water hazards - it spooks the fish.

17. Colleges? We have them all over. We have State Universities , Community Colleges, and Vo-techs. They come outta there with an education plus a love for God and country, and they still wave at everybody when they come for the holidays.

18. We have a whole ton of folks in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines. So don't mess with us. If you do, you will get whipped by the best.

19. Turn down that blasted car stereo! That thumpity-thump crap ain't music, anyway. We don't want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers.
Refer back to #1.

20. 4 inches isn't a blizzard - it's a flurry. Drive like you got some sense in it, and DON'T take all our bread, milk, and bleach from the grocery stores. This ain't Alaska , worst case you may have to live a whole day without croissants. The pickups with snow blades will have you out the next day.

[JLA]

That just brings a proud tear to my eye, and I was born in the big city. (The Ville).

[DMS]

Yes, yes, and yes...except for #15. College and High School Football is as important here as the Lakers and the Knicks, and a dang site more fun to watch.
Our high school team IS the Lakers.

[KYCanuck]

I was wondering why everyone was yelling at me for hitting the water hazzards!

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argh, not a fan of this one http://www.movoto.com/ky/moving-to-kent ... g.comments

This one is actually pretty good http://www.movoto.com/ky/people-you-meet-in-kentucky/

http://www.movoto.com/ky/kentucky-facts/ click the link its better with pics

Maria Scinto



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1. Starters in the Kentucky Derby, the oldest continuously held horse race, have had names beginning with every letter of the alphabet except for “X”.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Wikimedia user Bill Brine

2. Man o' War, one of the most famous horses ever born in Kentucky, never actually ran a race in the state.

3. Thunder Over Louisville, the Derby festivities' opening ceremony, has the world's largest fireworks display.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Flickr user 7263255

4. A typical Derby crowd guzzles 120,000 mint juleps and drains 7,000 liters of bourbon.

5. Internet lore that would have you believe Bourbon County is among the state's 37 dry counties is actually false.

6. Speaking of Bourbon, this beverage takes its name from Bourbon County, where it was first distilled.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Wikimedia user Bbadgett

7. Barren County has some of the state's most fertile soil, and was even named rural America's best place to live by Progressive Farmer magazine. (Seriously.)

8. Frederick Vinson, who later became the 13th Chief Justice of the United States, began life in a Louisa County jailhouse.

9. Kentucky treasurer “Honest Dick” Tate, at least, provided us with a wee bit of historical irony, absconding in 1888 with a cool quarter million from the state treasury.

10. Kentucky has the only memorial to Union soldiers killed during the Civil War to be erected south of the Ohio River. It's located in Vanceburg and pays tribute to 107 local boys who gave their lives fighting for the North.

11. To this day, Kentucky’s governors must swear an oath before taking office that they have never fought a duel with deadly weapons.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: J. Mund (painter) via Wikimedia Commons

12. Frankfort was the only Union state capital to be occupied by Confederate troops.

13. Martin van Buren Bates, a captain in the 7th Kentucky Cavalry, was so tall (about 7'2”) that his feet were said to drag on the ground when he sat in the saddle. After the war he achieved the nearly impossible—he met (and married) a woman even taller than himself.

14. Richmond, KY could have been a contender—in fact, it was almost chosen to be the nation's capital, but it lost out to Washington, D.C. due to lack of nearby seaports.

15. Kaelin's restaurant in Louisville claims to have invented the cheeseburger in 1934, although a Denver drive-in called Humpty Dumpty's patented it a year later.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Flickr user Dylan Ashe

16. And what goes better with a cheeseburger than a Pepsi? Pikeville, KY leads the nation in per-capita Pepsi consumption.

17. Unlike Uncle Ben, Aunt Jemima, and Betty Crocker, Colonel Sanders really did exist, and he developed his “secret recipe” for fried chicken in Corbin, KY.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Wikimedia user Jonathan Mcintosh

18. Duncan Hines, of cake mix fame, was the real deal, too, and he hailed from Bowling Green.

19. Bowling Green is also the birthplace of all little red Corvettes (as well as the rest of the colors they come in).

20. Post-It notes are produced nowhere else but Cynthiana, but the exact number manufactured each year is a closely guarded secret.

21. Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world, and also the U.S.'s second-oldest tourist attraction, right behind Niagara Falls.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Flickr user Diane Deaton

22. Cumberland Falls in the Daniel Boone National Forest is one of the few places on earth you might be able to see a moonbow.

23. The nation's first commercial oil well was actually not in Texas, but was drilled in 1819 along the banks of the Cumberland River in McCreary County.

24. The melody of the song “Happy Birthday” was composed in 1893 by Patty and Mildred Hill, two Louisville sisters.

25. Mother's Day also originated in Kentucky, when Henderson schoolteacher Mary Towles Sasseen created it to honor her own mama.

26. The Hatfields and McCoys were real families who carried on a real feud for a quarter century after the Civil War. While Devil Anse and co. were West Virginia boys, the McCoys were all from Pike County.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Wikimedia user janneman

27. Washington, KY was the first town to be named after cherry-tree chopping George, back in 1780 when he was actually still president.

28. Postlethwait's Tavern in Lexington hosted the nation's first performance of a Beethoven Symphony (#1, naturally) in 1817.

29. Saloon-smashing badass Carrie Nation was born in Garrard County.

30. Another Kentucky badass, Zerelda James (mom of outlaws Frank and Jesse) was actually born in a saloon—the Offutt-Cole Tavern, which still stands today at the intersection of Old Frankfort Pike and US 62 near Midway.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Flickr user J. Stephen Conn

31. D.W. Griffith, whose pro-KKK epic film “Birth of a Nation” earned him the sobriquet “Father of Hollywood” (if not of political correctness), hailed from LaGrange.

32. More than half of all U.S. troops killed in the War of 1812 were Kentuckians.

33. One of the first U.S. casualties of WWI was also Kentucky-born: Corporal James Bethel Gresham from McLean County.

34. Mark Spitz's star-spangled Speedos, the hit of the 1972 Olympics, were the height of Paris couture—Paris, KY, that is.

35. Covington's Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption boasts the world's largest hand-blown stained glass window, a 67' x 24' depiction of the epically exciting Council of Ephesus.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Wikimedia user nheyob

36. Fort Knox holds the world's largest store of Jello. Haha, no, it's gold, of course—about $6 billion and change.

37. Middlesboro is the only U.S. city built inside a meteor crater.

38. Middlesboro is also the home of the Coal House, which was constructed from 42 tons of bituminous coal and today houses Bell County's Chamber of Commerce.

39. High Bridge, towering 275 feet over the Kentucky River in Jessamine County, is said to be the nation's tallest railroad bridge spanning navigable waters.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Flickr user Robert Meeks

40. Bibb lettuce was developed by (and named for) John Bibb of Frankfort.

41. The world's first enamel bathtub was manufactured in Louisville in 1856.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Flickr user Jesse Milan

42. Traffic lights were invented by Garrett Morgan, a former slave from Paris, KY.

43. The radio was actually invented by Murray, KY's own Nathan B. Stubblefield in 1892, three years before that copycat Marconi jumped in and claimed the patent.

44. Thomas Edison really lit things up at the 1893 Southern Exposition in Louisville, introducing the public to the electric light bulb.

45. Louisville was founded by George Rogers Clark, older brother of the Clark whose name is usually preceded by “Lewis and...”

46. Old Louisville is America's largest Victorian preservation district.
50 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Kentucky
Source: Flickr user Stephanie White

47. Students at Lexington's Transylvania University enter a lottery for the chance to spend the night in the on-campus tomb of a 19th-century botany professor.

48. Kentucky has more miles of running water than any other state in the lower 48.

49. Kentucky may not be the largest state (in fact, it's the 14th-smallest), but it's bordered by a whopping seven neighbors: Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Missouri.

50. The Lost Mountain coal mine, in rural Breathitt County, has been abandoned for over 40 years, but it isn't hard to find—just look for the plumes of billowing smoke. Don't bother calling 9-1-1, though—it seems these underground coal fires are nearly impossible to put out.