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Kentucky is an agricultural producer in the United States. Value of agricultural products was $5 billion in 2012, of which slightly less than half was crops. [1] Crops grown in the state include corn, soybeans, hay, wheat and tobacco. [2] Historically, hemp has been a cash crop in the state (see hemp in Kentucky).
Weisenberger Mills is the oldest continuously operating grain mill in Kentucky. [2] Located about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Midway, Kentucky, the property straddles Scott and Woodford counties, and the mill is located on the banks of South Elkhorn Creek with a milldam which provides the water to power the mill.
Western Kentucky is the western portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It generally includes part or all of several more widely recognized regions of the state. Always included. The Jackson Purchase, the state's westernmost generally recognized region, west of the Tennessee River; The Western Coal Field, including the Clifty Region; Included in ...
During the Civil War, the Jackson Purchase area, including Mayfield, strongly supported the Confederate cause. It has been called "Kentucky's South Carolina". [10] On May 29, 1861, a group of Southern sympathizers from Kentucky and Tennessee met at the Graves County Courthouse to discuss the possibility of joining the Jackson Purchase to West ...
Marshall County is a county located in far western portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 31,659. [1] Its county seat is Benton. [2]It is the only Purchase Area county that does not border another state; a narrow strip of land in neighboring Livingston County separates Marshall County from the Ohio River and the Illinois border.
Fancy Farm is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Graves County, Kentucky, United States, [2] 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the county seat, Mayfield. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 403. [3] Fancy Farm is on Kentucky Route 80 in the rural, far-western portion of the state called the Jackson Purchase.
The West Kentucky Coal Field, alternatively The North Pennyrile or simply Northwest Kentucky, comprises an area in the west-central and northwestern part of the state, bounded by the Dripping Springs Escarpment and the Pennyroyal Plateau and the Ohio River, but is part of the Illinois Basin that extends into Indiana and Illinois. [1]
The Purchase comprised what is now eight counties, with a combined land area of 3,394.8 square miles (6,202.5 km 2), about 6.03% of Kentucky's land area. Its 2010 census population was 196,365 inhabitants, equal to 4.53% of the state's population.