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Kentucky Bend is the extreme southwestern corner of Kentucky. The peninsula is traversed by the southern line of latitude of the state of Kentucky, at the banks of the Mississippi River. The only highway into the area is Tennessee State Route 22, [4] whose continuation into Kentucky Bend at one time was signed as Kentucky State Route 313. [5]
The lowest point in the state of Kentucky is located on the Mississippi River in Kentucky Bend in Fulton County, where it flows past Kentucky and between Tennessee and Missouri. It is expected that over time, the river will cut across the short neck of the peninsula, cutting it off entirely from Kentucky, with land gradually filling in behind ...
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By 1819 [1] it was surveyed as far west as the Mississippi River near New Madrid, Missouri, where it created the Kentucky Bend. It is a historic civil engineering landmark, as designated by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It would later be said of the project: The boundary Charles II envisioned was one of the most grandiose in history.
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [5] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west.
The Annis Mound and Village site (15BT2, 15BT20, and 15BT21) is a prehistoric Middle Mississippian culture archaeological site located on the bank of the Green River in Butler County, Kentucky, several miles northwest of Morgantown in the Big Bend region. It was occupied from about 800 CE to about 1300 CE. [2] Annis Village site
However, the area across the Mississippi River from New Madrid, Missouri on the Kentucky and Tennessee shore was known during the Civil War simply as Madrid Bend. [4] The town of New Madrid (pronounced MAD-rid), which gives the bend its name, is at the northern apex of the second turn. Union transport "Terry" pushing through the swamps
The Kentucky Bend between Missouri and Tennessee. The Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665 selected an arbitrary line of latitude that, extended westward, isolated a bulb-shaped section of Kentucky from the rest of the state, accessible only through Tennessee.