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Kenton County is named for Simon Kenton, who, believing he was a fugitive, spent the mid-1770s hunting in eastern Kentucky. Longhunter James Knox named the Dix River after Cherokee leader Captain Dick, who gave Knox permission to hunt along the river in 1770. [19]
The 1955 western Kentucky Rifle gravitates around a trail wagon containing one hundred long rifles. The gun, which is actually the main star of that movie, is displayed under every angle and is even the object of lyric descriptive monologues by veteran actor Chill Wills. On the show Antiques Roadshow an 1810 Kentucky rifle was appraised at $20,000.
Pages in category "Eastern High School (Louisville, Kentucky) alumni" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Kentucky Senate [70] Jack Coleman: Kentucky House of Representatives and city commissioner of Harrodsburg, Kentucky [71] Carl Day: Kentucky House of Representatives: Alecia Webb-Edgington: M.A. Criminal justice Kentucky House of Representatives and executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security [72] Clyde Evans: Master Ohio ...
Longhunter is within the scope of WikiProject Tennessee, an open collaborative effort to coordinate work for and sustain comprehensive coverage of Tennessee and related subjects in the Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, and even become a member .
Eastern Cemetery is a 28-acre cemetery located at 641 Baxter Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, abutting Cave Hill Cemetery. [1] It contains about 16,000 graves, though documentation for about 138,000 bodies. [1] This imbalance is due to the cemetery formerly being a site for mass paupers' graves and from the reuse of grave sites ...
From a 1939 flood that killed 79 people, to a 1997 flood that affected 50,000 homes in just one city, here are some of the past major flooding events in Kentucky.
The 1770s (pronounced "seventeen-seventies") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1770, and ended on December 31, 1779. A period full of discoveries, breakthroughs happened in all walks of life, as what emerged at this period brought life to most innovations we know today.