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The Battle of Blue Licks celebration is held annually in mid-August and features a re-enactment of the Battle of Blue Licks. [6] The Short's Goldenrod Festival—a celebration of one of the rarest plants in Kentucky and the United States—saw its 30th anniversary in 2006. [13] It was held annually in the last week of September until 2008.
The Confederate Heartland Offensive (August 14 – October 10, 1862), also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.
Location War Campaign Dead Belligerents unnamed battle [1] 1745 (three days) modern Ft. Thomas, Kentucky: Shawnee vs Miami & Cherokee: Siege of Logan's Fort [2] [3] May 23-June 1, 1777 modern Stanford, Kentucky: American Revolutionary War: Western theater: 1 Kentucky settlers vs Shawnees & allies Siege of Boonesborough: September 7–18, 1778
On the fortieth anniversary of the battle in 1902, a Confederate monument was dedicated in the Confederate cemetery begun by Henry Bottom, and a smaller U.S. memorial was erected nearby in 1931. The Perryville State Battlefield site was established in 1954 by the Kentucky State Conservation Commission, and a museum and visitor center were ...
Map of Richmond Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, fought August 29–30, 1862, was one of the most complete Confederate victories in the American Civil War [3] by Major General Edmund Kirby Smith against Union major general William "Bull" Nelson's forces, which were defending the town.
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
Boys’ tourney is March 20-23 at Rupp Arena in Lexington.
The parents of Red Foley kept a general store at the crossroads of Blue Lick. A guitar once used as part-payment for settlement of an account was given to Foley, starting him on a musical path which would eventually see him inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. [2]