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The 1807 Morgan Row in Harrodsburg (pop. 8,014) is considered the oldest row house in the state and the first row house west of the Allegheny Mountains. It houses the Harrodsburg Historical Society’s museum and library.

first appeared: 10/14/2001

The 1700s William Whitley House, near Crab Orchard (pop. 842), is the site of the first brick home west of the Alleghenies and the first circular clay racetrack in Kentucky.

first appeared: 10/7/2001

The Pennyroyal Region stretches over 11,500 square miles along the state’s southern border from the Appalachian Plateau to Kentucky Lake. It was named after a small mint plant common to the area called pennyroyal.

first appeared: 9/30/2001

Built in 1812 on the Little Laurel River in Corbin (pop. 7,742), McHargue’s Mill is surrounded by the largest display of millstones (the large circular stones used for grinding grain) in the country.

first appeared: 9/23/2001

The Jim Beam Distillery at the American Outpost in Bullitt County operates a bourbon-making museum in the original Beam home. Displays include one of the oldest moonshine stills in the country.

first appeared: 9/16/2001

The Schmidt Museum of Coca-Cola Memorabilia in Elizabethtown (pop. 22,542) displays memorabilia and collectibles representing Coca-Cola’s place in American culture—including a Tiffany glass bottle.

first appeared: 9/9/2001

Built in 1843, Octagon Hall in Simpson County (pop. 16,405) once was used as an overnight encampment for the Confederate army. The eight-sided brick home has been restored and is open to the public.

first appeared: 9/2/2001

Railroad engineer John Luther Jones got his nickname, Casey, from his hometown of Cayce—pronounced the same—in Fulton County (pop. 7,752). He was immortalized with the folk song Casey Jones: The Brave Engineer.

first appeared: 8/26/2001

Situated in Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, near Middlesboro (pop. 10,384), are the remains of the Hensley Settlement, a self-sufficient, primitive community established atop Brush Mountain from 1904 to the 1950s.

first appeared: 8/19/2001

Dating back to 1785, the Valley View Ferry, which crosses the Kentucky River, is the oldest continuously operating business in Kentucky. It is located near Richmond (pop. 27,152).

first appeared: 8/12/2001

Ventriloquism enthusiast W.S. Berger established Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell (pop. 7,438) to house what today is the largest known collection of ventriloquist material in the world.

first appeared: 8/5/2001

Cynthiana (pop. 6,258) was named in 1801 for Cynthia and Anna, the two daughters of its first settler, Robert Harrison.

first appeared: 7/29/2001

The Kentucky State Penitentiary, located at Eddyville (pop. 1,809), is the only maximum security facility in the state. The “Castle on the Cumberland” was constructed in 1884 by Italian stone masons.

first appeared: 7/22/2001

While drilling for salt along the Big South Fork in McCreary County (pop. 16, 659) in 1818, workers discovered oil. The nation’s first commercial oil well began operation there in 1819.

first appeared: 7/15/2001

William Clark laid out the town of Paducah (pop. 26,601) in 1827. He named the town in honor of Chief Paduke, head of the Paducah subtribe of the Chickasaws.

first appeared: 7/8/2001

Fairview’s Jefferson Davis Monument is one of the world’s tallest obelisks. The 351-foot-tall structure was completed in 1924.

first appeared: 7/1/2001

In 1970, Diane Crump became the first female jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby. She rode on a horse named Fathom, placing 15th.

first appeared: 6/24/2001

Established in 1823, the Kentucky School for the Deaf was the first state-supported school of its kind in the nation.

first appeared: 6/17/2001

The movie Raintree County, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift, was filmed in Danville (pop. 16,059) in 1956.

first appeared: 6/10/2001

Composer Stephen Foster wrote the ballad that’s now Kentucky’s state song, My Old Kentucky Home, after an 1852 visit to Federal Hill, a plantation near Bardstown (pop. 6,801).

first appeared: 6/3/2001

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