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The Native Americans had named the river Walatoola, which means "winding waters", describing the great bends in the river. However, when British settlers arrived in the 1720s they named it the Cowpasture. There is an interesting story about how the Cowpasture and neighboring rivers the Bullpasture River and Calfpasture River came to be so named ...
Barren River Lake State Resort Park: Barren County [3] Park: 2,187 acres (8.9 km 2) Lake: 10,000 acres (40 km 2) Blue Licks Battlefield State Park: Robertson County [3] 148 acres (0.60 km 2) Breaks Interstate Park: Pike County, Kentucky; Dickenson and Buchanan County, Virginia [7] Park: 4,600 acres (19 km 2) [7] Lake: 12 acres (0.05 km 2) [8]
Camping: The park's wooded campground has 136 sites. Campers have access to utility hook-ups and a grocery store. There are three central services buildings featuring laundry and shower facilities as well as modern latrines. There is a miniature golf course near the campground entrance. [7] There is a large group camping area.
Kentucky Route 90 (KY 90) is a major east–west state highway in southern Kentucky. The route is 134.734 miles (216.833 km) long, and it traverses Barren , Metcalfe , Cumberland , Clinton , Wayne , Pulaski , McCreary and Whitley Counties in southern Kentucky.
Robert C. Yount Memorial Bridges over the Kentucky River (one bridge for each direction of travel) 195.856: 315.200: US 127 south (West Frankfort Connector) / KY 1211 south (Taylor Avenue) Northern end of US 127 concurrency; northern terminus of KY 1211 198.083: 318.784: KY 1570 north (Saint Johns Road) Southern terminus of KY 1570 200.290: 322.336
Quake Lake was formed on the Madison River when an earthquake launched a landslide across the river in 1959. [56] George Washington and Jefferson: Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky: May 16, 1918: 1,792,209 acres (7,252.8 km 2)
(The Center Square) – An ongoing war in Syria has suddenly ended with the overturning of the long-standing Syrian government, creating national security and humanitarian concerns but also ...
Kentucky Route 205 (KY 205) is a 29-mile-long (47 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The highway connects mostly rural areas of Breathitt , Wolfe , and Morgan counties with Jackson , Vancleve , and Helechawa .