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In the list below, 1937C is only used if the route is on the 1937 county map but not the 1939 state map. Otherwise a C indicates that it first appears on a county map. Parentheses indicate it was overprinted as part of the "rural highway series" rather than being included on the original map.
The Music of Kentucky is heavily centered on Appalachian folk music and its descendants, especially in eastern Kentucky. Bluegrass music is of particular regional importance; Bill Monroe, "the father of bluegrass music", was born in the Ohio County community of Rosine, and he named his band, the Blue Grass Boys, after the bluegrass state, i.e., Kentucky.
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 ...
Westbound Bluegrass Parkway near Bardstown. In 2003, the road was renamed in honor of Martha Layne Collins, the first female governor of Kentucky. Previously, it was the Kentucky Bluegrass parkway (and signed as "KB Parkway"), then later renamed the "Blue Grass Parkway" (sometimes with "Bluegrass" as one word, though in the highway's name, it was officially two words), and often called the "BG ...
Byway/Highway name [1] Counties Routes involved Route description Length Black Mountain Scenic Byway Harlan: KY 160: From Benham and Lynch to the Virginia state line 10.341 miles (16.642 km) Pine Mountain Road Letcher: US 119: From KY 15 junction in Whitesburg to KY 806 junction near Oven Fork 8.153 miles (13.121 km) Red River Gorge Scenic Byways
Constructed by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the unnumbered portion is maintained by the city KY 1425: 0.987 1.588 I-75: US 60 (Winchester Road) New Circle Road KY 4: 19.3 31.0 Beltway around Lexington 1950 Controlled-access highway except for northeastern portion between KY 922 and US 25 / US 421: Paris Pike US 27 / US 68: 14 23
A segment of the Wilderness Road was among the first roads in the United States to be paved. The old road from the town of Cumberland Gap, Tennessee to Middlesboro, Kentucky through the mountain pass was paved and completed on October 3, 1908. This was an "object-lesson" road (a new kind of paved macadam construction funded by local communities ...
During the 18th century, enslaved Africans were brought to Appalachia by European settlers of trans-Appalachia Kentucky and the upper Blue Ridge Valley. According to the first census of 1790, more than 3,000 enslaved Africans were transported across the mountains into East Tennessee and more than 12,000 into the Kentucky mountains. [29]