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The park encompasses 15 acres (6.1 ha) and features a reconstruction of Fort Harrod, the first permanent American settlement in the state of Kentucky. The park was founded in November 1934 as Pioneer Memorial State Park , and dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Governor Ruby Laffoon .
Whitehaven (the Anderson-Smith House) is a historic plantation house in Paducah, Kentucky, in use since 1983 as the Kentucky welcome center on Interstate 24 (I-24) near the state border with Illinois. [2] It is the only historic house in the United States also used as a rest area. [3]
The black line is the proclamation boundary. Green represents Forest Service land. White areas within the boundary are privately or locally owned. The inset map shows the ranger districts. In 1900, Congress appropriated $5,000, and again in 1907, $25,000 for the investigation of areas in southern Appalachia, for potential purchase as a national ...
Kentucky has both the largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi in water volume (Lake Cumberland) and surface area (Kentucky Lake). Kentucky Lake's 2,064 miles (3,322 km) of shoreline, 160,300 acres (64,900 hectares) of water surface, and 4,008,000 acre-feet (4.9 billion cubic meters) of flood storage are the most of any lake in the TVA ...
A post shared on X claims U.S. Marines purportedly stopped contractors from selling border wall construction materials. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a Dec. 17 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Madison County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
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