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Bell House (Edmonton, Kentucky) John Bell House (Lexington, Kentucky) Bellevoir-Ormsby Village; Bellevue (Newport, Kentucky) Ben Johnson House (Bardstown, Kentucky) Benjamin Helm House; Bennett Hiatt Log House; Berry Mansion; Richard Berry Jr. House (Springfield, Kentucky) Philomen Bird House; Bird's Nest (Shelby County, Kentucky) Bishop House ...
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
Before 1750, Kentucky was populated nearly exclusively by Cherokee, Chickasaw, Shawnee and several other tribes of Native Americans [1] See also Pre-Columbian; April 13, 1750 • While leading an expedition for the Loyal Land Company in what is now southeastern Kentucky, Dr. Thomas Walker was the first recorded American of European descent to discover and use coal in Kentucky; [2]
Location of Pulaski County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Pulaski County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Pulaski County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Marion County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky.As of the 2020 census, the total population was 19,581. [1] Its county seat is Lebanon. [2] The county was founded in 1834 and named for Francis Marion, the American Revolutionary War hero known as the "Swamp Fox".
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 ...
Maytown is located just south of Ezel, Kentucky. It is home to the Carl and Norma Lil' Opry House and the old gas station ran by the two. It hosted a church, but is now not in operation. There is a small sawmill east of Maytown that is still in use however. The main power source for the town is the Maytown Power Station due north going to Ezel.
Voting house on Skippers Road, Emporia, Virginia. A voting house, sometimes called an election house, polling house, or a voting hall, [1] is a type of American vernacular architecture used by local governments in rural areas of the United States as a polling station. Dedicated voting houses have been used since the second half of the 19th century.