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January 16, 1980. (#74000893) Loretto. 37°38′52″N 85°20′56″W / 37.647778°N 85.348889°W / 37.647778; -85.348889 (Burks' Distillery) Marion. Producer of Maker's Mark bourbon whiskey. 4. Camp Nelson Historic and Archeological District. Camp Nelson Historic and Archeological District.
Added to NRHP. February 18, 1993. The Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument was the location of the Battle of Mill Springs (also known as Battle of Fishing Creek and as Battle of Logan's Crossroads) in January 1862. It was declared to be a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1993 and authorized as a national monument in 2019.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Kentucky. This is a list of properties and historic districts in Kentucky that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are listings in all of Kentucky's 120 counties. The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude ...
The Stoner Creek Rural Historic District, in Bourbon County, Kentucky near Paris, Kentucky, is a 22,000 acres (89 km 2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It included 526 contributing buildings, 207 contributing structures, seven contributing objects and 33 contributing sites.
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 ...
Revolutionary War. March 10, 1775 • Daniel Boone along with 35 axmen begin to blaze a trail from Fort Chiswell through Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky. Financed by the Transylvania Company, the trail eventually came to be known as the Wilderness Road. June 1775 • Led by Major John Morrison, a small band of Virginia militia including ...
See List of National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky. National Historic Landmarks in the U.S. state of Kentucky. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap.
H. Historic American Buildings Survey in Kentucky (4 P) Historic American Landscapes Survey in Kentucky (5 P) Historic districts in Kentucky (2 C, 2 P) Historic house museums in Kentucky (1 C, 44 P) Historic trails and roads in Kentucky (2 C, 3 P)