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Kenton County is named for Simon Kenton, who, believing he was a fugitive, spent the mid-1770s hunting in eastern Kentucky. Longhunter James Knox named the Dix River after Cherokee leader Captain Dick, who gave Knox permission to hunt along the river in 1770. [19]
In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker, an investor in the Loyal Land Company, with five companions, made a famous exploration through the Cumberland Gap and into eastern Kentucky. The Loyal Land Company settled people in southwest Virginia, but not Kentucky. In 1769, Virginia longhunter and explorer Joseph Martin made the first of several forays into the ...
Kentucky Route 1531 is a 15.892-mile-long (25.576 km) rural secondary highway that begins in northeastern Bullitt County and ends in northwestern Shelby County, but the route spends almost all of its length in the city of Louisville in eastern Jefferson County.
KY 22 east (Main Street) – Kincaid Lake State Park, Kincaid Regional Theater: Southern end of KY 22 overlap 167.350: 269.324: KY 330 west: Eastern terminus of KY 330 169.302: 272.465: KY 22 west – Williamstown: Northern end of KY 22 overlap 169.683: 273.078: KY 1657 west (Lightfoot Fork Road) Eastern terminus of KY 1657 170.824: 274.915
Jenny was held captive by the Native Americans for several months in what is now Little Mud Lick Creek, Johnson County, Kentucky. She escaped to Harman's Blockhouse in Floyd County (now Johnson County), aided in crossing a major river by longhunter Henry Skaggs. With the help of the settlers at Harman's Blockhouse, Jenny made her way back to ...
The Old Hickman Historic District, in Hickman, Kentucky, is a 9.2 acres (3.7 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The listing included 45 contributing buildings, a contributing structure, and two contributing sites. [1]
Kentucky Route 17 (KY 17) is a 34.660-mile-long (55.780 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It connects U.S. Route 27 in rural Pendleton County to the Ohio state line in Covington . Route description
Begin concurrency with KY 55; eastern terminus of KY 210: 221.585: 356.606: KY 323 west (North Columbia Avenue) Eastern terminus of KY 323: 221.725: 356.832: KY 527 north (North Central Avenue) / US 68 east / KY 55 north (East Broadway Street) – Lebanon: End concurrency with US 68/KY 55; 70 continues to the east on South Central Avenue: 222. ...