Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This Floyd County, Kentucky state location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
On March 21, 1906, Governor J. C. W. Beckham signed legislation which established the Eastern Kentucky State Normal School No. 1. [9] On May 7, 1906, the Normal School Commission selected the site of the former Central University campus as the location of this new college; EKU remains at this location today.
Maroon has been the official color of Eastern athletics since the school was begun as the Eastern Kentucky State Normal School in 1906, and the school's official team nickname was the "Maroons" from the start of intercollegiate competition in 1909–10 until 1963, when then-president Robert Martin changed the nickname to the "Colonels". [10]
Justice on the Kentucky Supreme Court [51] Debra H. Lambert: 1983 Associate justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court and former Judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals [52] Danny C. Reeves: 1978 Chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky [53] Gregory N. Stivers: 1982
Kentucky (US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i / ⓘ, UK: / k ɛ n-/), [5] officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, [c] is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States.It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west.
Eastern Kentucky lost in the first round of the OVC tournament to Eastern Illinois. [1] [2] Eastern Kentucky failed to qualify for the NCAA tournament, but were invited to the 2010 College Basketball Invitational. The Colonels were eliminated by College of Charleston, 82–79. [3] The Colonels finished the season with a 20–13 record.
This page was last edited on 19 November 2022, at 10:41 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.
The Eastern Kentucky Coalfield covers 31 counties with a combined land area of 13,370 sq mi (34,628 km 2), or about 33.1 percent of the state's land area.Its 2000 census population was 734,194 inhabitants, or about 18.2 percent of the state's population.