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The Guthrie Historic District in Guthrie, Kentucky was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. It is a 12.3 acres (5.0 ha) area deemed significant "for its connection with the L&N railroad and its associations with transportation in that area. [ 2 ]
The present location of Guthrie was the site of the Pondy Woods stagecoach stop in the 1840s; the community around it may have also been called State Line for a time, from the nearby Tennessee state line. [4] The town was named for former Representative James Guthrie, the president of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at its founding in ...
Kentucky has more navigable miles of water than any other state in the union, other than Alaska. [ 29 ] Kentucky is the only U.S. state to have a continuous border of rivers running along three of its sides – the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and the Big Sandy River and Tug Fork to the east. [ 30 ]
The original meaning of the term Kentuckiana dates back to the 19th century as a collection of items from or relating to Kentucky. [2] The modern meaning of term as a geographical area was coined by The Louisville Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times sometime during the 1930s. [3]
Rainfall from Hurricane Ian threatened city's drinking water supply; plan for controversial northeast Venice shopping center also on agenda
Water Valley is a census-designated place and former home rule-class city in Graves County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 235 as of the 2020 census . It was incorporated on April 19, 1884, and had its charter dissolved via court order effective June 20, 2016.
He called it "Elkton" after the elk herds that watered at a spring near the town center. Gray designed the town square as a trapezoid instead of a square, with the south side of the town square larger than the north so that as the sun traversed across the sky, the buildings on the east and west would benefit from prolonged periods of daily ...
Boyd County was the 107th of 120 counties formed in Kentucky and was established in 1860 from parts of surrounding Greenup, Carter, and Lawrence Counties. [3] It was named for Linn Boyd of Paducah, former U.S. congressman, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, who died in 1859 soon after being elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky.