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The World Chicken Festival is an annual event held in downtown London, Kentucky, in Laurel County, on the last weekend in September. The festival celebrates the life of Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Laurel County is the home to the original KFC restaurant in Corbin, Kentucky, founded in the 1940s.
The festival grew from a relatively local event in its early years to one of Kentucky’s largest festivals by 2019 (there was no festival in 2020 due to COVID) with as many as 100,000 visitors ...
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The Kentucky Fried Chicken brand began life in 1940 (Charlotte Hindle) Today the motel has gone, and the original restaurant is a museum of social history. But a plaque outside on Route 25 praises ...
Nowadays, visitors are welcomed to the original cafe and museum where they can eat at, tour, and learn about the start of the worldwide franchise. Due to the history of chicken in the county, The World Chicken Festival is celebrated every year in London, the county seat, drawing crowds of up to 250,000 people over the four-day festival.
Colonel [a] Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC). He later acted as the company's brand ambassador and symbol.