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This list of cemeteries in Kentucky includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Location of Harlan County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Harlan County, Kentucky. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude ...
Harlan County is a county located in southeastern Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,831. [1] Its county seat is Harlan. [2] It is classified as a moist county—one in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city—in this case Cumberland, where package alcohol sales are allowed.
Kentucky law requires 30% of a cemetery’s revenue to go into a perpetual care fund. To make sure the long history of the cemetery stays alive, the Lexington Cemetery puts 60% into perpetual care.
The Benham Historic District is a historic district encompassing ten buildings and a public park in Benham, Kentucky. The buildings form the historic center of the coal town of Benham. Benham was founded by Wisconsin Steel, a subsidiary of International Harvester , in 1912; its major buildings were built between 1919 and 1928, replacing the ...
Chad is an unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. Chad is located on U.S. Route 119 and the Poor Fork about 2 miles (3.2 km) below the city of Cumberland, Kentucky. [2] Chad had a post office from 1924 to 1932. [3]
Harlan is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. [3] The population was 1,745 at the 2010 census , [ 4 ] down from 2,081 at the 2000 census. Harlan is one of three Kentucky county seats to share its name with its county, the others being Greenup and Henderson .
While serving with the Kentucky militia, he was a scout and hunter and ultimately received the rank of major. January 2, 1777, at Harrodsburg, Silas Harlan was one of about thirty men raised by James Harrod to retrieve five hundred pounds of gunpowder from Three Islands in present-day Lewis County .