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Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War.It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
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Eastern Kentucky University football is considered the first dynasty in FCS football. Including a four-year run to the championship game from 1979 to 1982. During this time period they went 46–7 under legendary coach Roy Kidd. Eastern Kentucky is third all time in the FCS for playoff appearances with 21 total appearances (Montana 26/UNI 22).
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
The Battle of the Bluegrass is the name given to the Eastern Kentucky–Western Kentucky football rivalry. Both schools were formerly members of the Ohio Valley Conference , and played against each other regularly until Western Kentucky's transition from the NCAA 's FCS to FBS in 2008.
This is the Feb. 5 edition of the Bluegrass Politics newsletter. Sign up here to get the latest news from the Kentucky General Assembly delivered to your inbox for free.. Happy Part II of the 2025 ...
Louisville baseball hosts No. 8 Kentucky in the 115th Battle of the Bluegrass. The game will be a homecoming for a former St. Xavier High School star.
The northern fork split into two parts. The eastern spur went into the Bluegrass region of Kentucky to Boonesborough on the Kentucky River (near Lexington). The western spur ran to the Falls of the Ohio . [8] [9] As settlements grew southward, the road stretched all the way to Knoxville, Tennessee, by 1792. [10]