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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.
Steve Beshear, 61st Governor of Kentucky, 2007–2015; 49th Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1983–1987); 43rd Attorney General of Kentucky (1979–1983) Charles Booker , Director of Kentucky's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives and Community Involvement, former Kentucky House Representative (2019–2021), and the first African American to be a ...
Today, the site is a satellite unit of Long Hunter State Park. The non-profit Friends of the Sellars Farm State Archaeological Area organization conducts tours and upkeep of the site. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 11, 1972. [1] Numerous sandstone figurines have been unearthed on the site. [2]
WYMT-TV (channel 57) is a television station licensed to Hazard, Kentucky, United States, serving as the CBS affiliate for the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield region. Owned by Gray Media, the station maintains studios on Black Gold Boulevard off the KY 15 bypass in Hazard, and its transmitter is located south of the city in the Perry County community of Viper.
Watch live: Officials provide updates after deadly bank shooting in Louisville, Ky. Updated April 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM Authorities provide an update after a mass shooting at a bank in downtown ...
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 ...
Post Office at Thousandsticks KY 1975. Thousandsticks is an unincorporated community in Leslie County, Kentucky, United States. Thousandsticks is located at the junction of the Hal Rogers Parkway and Kentucky Route 118 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Hyden. Thousandsticks had a post office with ZIP code 41766 [2] which closed in 2005. [3]