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Mammoth Cave is the world’s longest cave and was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States after Niagara Falls.

first appeared: 2/1/2004

The University of Kentucky’s cheerleading squad has won the National College Cheerleading Championships a record 12 times, the last eight consecutively (1995-2002).

first appeared: 1/25/2004

Arguably the world’s most frequently sung song, Happy Birthday To You, was written in 1893 by two sisters, Mildred and Patricia Hill of Louisville.

first appeared: 1/18/2004

The state ranks fifth in the nation in total number of farms with 89,000—behind Texas, Missouri, Iowa and Tennessee. More than half of the state’s land is farmed.

first appeared: 1/11/2004

The song, My Old Kentucky Home, is sung at every running of the Kentucky Derby.

first appeared: 1/4/2004

In 1911, Cora Stewart founded moonlight schools, an adult literacy program held in country schools on moonlit nights, in Rowan County.

first appeared: 12/28/2003

In 1788, a group of Eastern settlers bought 1,400 acres near a salt lick from William May and named their town Mays Lick.

first appeared: 12/21/2003

Indian drawings found on trees inspired the name for Paint Creek and Paintsville (pop. 4,132), established in 1834.

first appeared: 12/14/2003

Fossilized remains of prehistoric mammoths, mastodons and ground sloths have been uncovered at Big Bone Lick State Park at Union (pop. 2,893).

first appeared: 12/7/2003

The Dry Stone Conservancy in Lexington preserves the craft of dry stone structures, such as fences built without mortar.

first appeared: 11/30/2003

Illustrator and cartoonist Daniel Carter Beard co-founded the Boy Scouts of America in 1910 and served as the group’s first national commissioner. Beard grew up in Covington (pop. 43,370).

first appeared: 11/23/2003

Librarians on horses and mules delivered books to remote areas of eastern Kentucky from 1935 to 1943 as part of the Pack Horse Library Project, a Works Progress Administration program.

first appeared: 11/16/2003

Statesman Henry Clay of Lexington imported the first Hereford cattle to the United States in 1817.

first appeared: 11/9/2003

Clinton Roby of Waddy hooked the state record smallmouth buffalo—55 pounds—at Kentucky Lake in March 2000.

first appeared: 11/2/2003

A 19.4-mile stretch of the Red River near Stanton (pop. 3,029) was designated the state’s first National Wild and Scenic River in 1993.

first appeared: 10/26/2003

Established in 1794, Carrollton (pop. 3,846) originally was named Port William, but was changed in 1838 with the creation of Carroll County. Both “Carrolls” honored Charles Carroll, a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

first appeared: 10/19/2003

Daniel Boone surveyed the land where Waveland State Historic Site is located near Lexington. Boone’s nephew, Daniel Boone Bryan, owned the 1847 Greek Revival mansion, slave quarters, smokehouse, and icehouse.

first appeared: 10/12/2003

Mockingbird Valley (pop. 190) is the state’s wealthiest city with a median per capital income of $134,745.

first appeared: 10/5/2003

Veteran journalist Helen Thomas, a correspondent for 57 years for United Press International, was born in 1920 in Winchester (pop. 16,724).

first appeared: 9/28/2003

Cynthiana (pop. 6,258) was established in 1793 on land donated by Robert Harrison, who named the settlement in honor of his daughters Cynthia and Anna.

first appeared: 9/21/2003

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