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Kentucky Women Remembered is an exhibit in the Kentucky State Capitol that honors the contributions of women from the Commonwealth. The exhibit consists of over 60 watercolor portraits of outstanding Kentucky women. The Kentucky Commission on Women receives nominations and selects two to four honorees each year to be included.
Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, was the girlhood home of Mary Todd, the future first lady and wife of the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln.Today the fourteen-room house is a museum containing period furniture, portraits, and artifacts from the Todd and Lincoln families.
Oldest surviving house in Johnson County; built 1843; Fryer House – Home of pioneer Walter Fryer; built 1811; Glen Willis – built 1815; Hausgen House – Colonial Revival style house; built c. 1890; Hawkins House – Has served as a ropewalk and a dormitory for the Georgetown Female Seminary. Became a residential home in 1858; built c. 1790
Image credits: Vestiges of History Family stories are rarely one type or another. When you look at a photo, you might start talking about a beach vacation, but the conversation could lead to the ...
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 coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by ...
“I’d rather say this is a book about Black families in Kentucky and it’s just set then.” ‘Enlisted without consent’ Historic 1850’s Wet Plate Collodion portrait of Frank X. Walker on ...
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 Whitehaven or "Bide-a-wee." 73000824 Wickland: February 16, 1973: Bardstown: Nelson: Has been the home of 3 governors: two from Kentucky and one from Louisiana: William ...
Riser House (c.1880), 512 Lakeshore Drive, a two-story weatherboarded house whose core is an early log house, built by Dr. L. B. Cook, operator of the first drugstore in Burnside. Jumonville House (c.1900), 514 Lakeshore Drive, a one-and-a-half-story frame house with a jerkinhead and an inset balcony on its main facade, and jerkinheads on other ...