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Clare Market slum in 1815, by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Grimaldi was born in Clare Market, in Westminster, London, into a family of dancers and comic performers. [1] [3] His great-grandfather, John Baptist Grimaldi, was a dentist by trade and an amateur performer, who in the 1730s moved from Italy to England.
Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
Shropshire House – Home of Confederate governor of Kentucky, George W. Johnson; built 1814; Thomas Edison House – Home of Thomas Edison from 1866 to 1867; built c. 1850s; Thomas Huey Farm – Gothic Revival style home; built 1865; Ward Hall – Home of Junius and Matilda Viley Ward, built circa 1857
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The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...
Home to the family of famed Southern Belle Sallie Ward and Kentucky's Confederate Governor George Johnson. 71000352 White Hall: March 11, 1971: Richmond: Madison: 84001824 Anderson-Smith House: March 1, 1984: Paducah: McCracken: Serves as an official Kentucky Welcome Center and houses the furniture of Vice-President Alben Barkley. Also known as ...
North of the junction of Kentucky Routes 37 and 243: Gravel Switch: 38: Hankla-Walker House: July 31, 1998 : 0.3 miles (0.48 km) northwest of Kentucky Route 1920, 0.6 miles (0.97 km) south of Whites Rd.
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