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St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral in Bardstown (pop. 10,374) was the first Catholic cathedral west of the Allegheny Mountains. Construction on this landmark began in 1816.

first appeared: 12/8/2002

Vanceburg (pop. 1,731) features one of the few monuments south of the Mason-Dixon line dedicated to Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. The figure on the courthouse lawn was erected by citizens in 1884.

first appeared: 12/1/2002

Construction of the U.S. Bullion Depository in Fort Knox (pop. 12,377) was a weighty matter, requiring 16,000 cubic feet of granite, 4,200 cubic yards of concrete, and 1,420 tons of steel.

first appeared: 11/24/2002

In Paducah (pop. 26,307), 20 murals decorating the Ohio River floodwall represent different periods of the town’s history.

first appeared: 11/17/2002

In 1792, Kentucky joined the Union—the first state to do so from what was then considered the western frontier.

first appeared: 11/10/2002

Benton (pop. 4,197) holds a Tater Day Festival each spring. The event grew from county court day, first held in 1843, when farmers sold produce in the town square.

first appeared: 11/3/2002

Meriwether Lewis Clark Jr. founded Churchill Downs in Louisville in 1875. After studying tracks and races in England, he established the Kentucky Derby, first run on May 17, 1875.

first appeared: 10/27/2002

Bluegrass is actually green but produces bluish-purple buds that, in the spring, give a rich blue cast to the grass.

first appeared: 10/20/2002

Garrett Morgan, born in 1877 in Paris (pop. 9,183), received the first patent for an automatic traffic light in 1923. The signal had three options: stop, go, and an all-directional stop for pedestrians.

first appeared: 10/13/2002

Built in 1944, the Kentucky Dam created Kentucky Lake, the largest man-made lake in the eastern United States with 2,400 miles of shoreline and 160,300 acres.

first appeared: 10/6/2002

In 1884, Mary Garretson Miller of Louisville became the first woman to be issued a steamboat license.

first appeared: 9/29/2002

Founded in 1950 by Col. Eben Henson, the Pioneer Playhouse in Danville (pop. 15,477) is the state’s oldest outdoor theater. John Travolta and Lee Majors are among some 3,000 actors who have performed there.

first appeared: 9/22/2002

Alcohol protester Carry A. Nation was born Nov. 25, 1846, in Garrard County. A woman standing nearly 6 feet tall, she would march into saloons in the early 1900s and proceed to sing, pray, and smash the fixtures with a hatchet, bringing attention to the issue of prohibition.

first appeared: 9/15/2002

Rabbit Hash in Boone County earned its name after an 1847 flood isolated the settlement, but washed up enough rabbits to keep settlers fed.

first appeared: 9/8/2002

The United States Bullion Depository in Fort Knox (pop. 12,377) has in the past stored the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Articles of the Confederation, the Gettysburg Address, and three volumes of the Gutenberg Bible.

first appeared: 9/1/2002

Old-time movie star Arthur Lake was born in Corbin (pop. 7,742). He played Dagwood in the Blondie films of the 1930s and ’40s.

first appeared: 8/25/2002

The state got its name from the Iroquoian Indian word Ken-tah-ten, meaning “land of tomorrow.”

first appeared: 8/18/2002

Kentucky ranks fourth in the country for the number of sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

first appeared: 8/11/2002

Washington reputedly was the first of many towns named for our first president. Now a quaint 1700s village of shops and museums, it was established in 1786, six years before Kentucky became a state.

first appeared: 8/4/2002

A neoclassical marble monument marks the site of Abraham Lincoln’s birth in Hodgenville (pop. 2,874) at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site. He was born Feb. 12, 1809.

first appeared: 7/28/2002

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