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The Best Attractions In Prestonsburg

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Middle Creek National Battlefield

Jenny Wiley Theatre

East Kentucky Science Center and Planetarium

Mountain Arts Center

Jenny Wiley State Resort Park

Fort Boonesborough State Park

Red River Gorge Geological Area

Claiborne Farm

Natural Bridge State Resort Park

Portsmouth Floodwall Mural

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

Prestonsburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 3,255 at the time of the 2010 census, down from 3,612 at the 2000 census.
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The Best Attractions In Prestonsburg

1. Jenny Wiley State Resort Park Prestonsburg
Jenny Wiley State Resort Park was at first named Jenny Wiley State Park on January 1, 1954 with Dewey Lake near Prestonsburg, Kentucky as its centerpiece. It is named for Virginia Jenny Wiley, a pioneer woman who is remembered as a survivor of Indian captivity.Taken captive October 1, 1789, by Indians of the area, Cherokees, Shawnees, Wyandots, and Delawares, who murdered her brother and four children by tomahawk. She escaped after 11 months of captivity. The Indians had intended to attack the Harmon family who lived nearby, for killing two Cherokees, and had mistakenly attacked the Wiley family who lived in one of the hollows that is now within the park. Jenny Wiley became pregnant and gave birth during the captivity, and learned the Cherokee lifestyle. Her dramatic escape in the spring o...
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2. Mountain Arts Center Prestonsburg
The Mountain Arts Center is a performing arts venue located at 50 Hal Rogers Drive in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. The center was established in October 1996 and became home to the Kentucky Opry. Its main feature is the 1,054 seat theater, along with several large meeting rooms, a recording studio, an arts education room, individual instruction halls, and an art gallery featuring exhibits from many local artists. The theater is also home to the Dance Etc school of dance annual performances of The Nutcracker and Spring Recitals. Major musicians and bands to have used the Center's stage in the past include: Dwight Yoakam, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Montgomery Gentry, Ricky Skaggs, Patty Loveless, Ralph Stanley, IIIrd Tyme Out, Merle Haggard, The Temptations, Percy Sledge, The Platters, The Drift...
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3. Jenny Wiley Theatre Prestonsburg
Jenny Wiley State Resort Park was at first named Jenny Wiley State Park on January 1, 1954 with Dewey Lake near Prestonsburg, Kentucky as its centerpiece. It is named for Virginia Jenny Wiley, a pioneer woman who is remembered as a survivor of Indian captivity.Taken captive October 1, 1789, by Indians of the area, Cherokees, Shawnees, Wyandots, and Delawares, who murdered her brother and four children by tomahawk. She escaped after 11 months of captivity. The Indians had intended to attack the Harmon family who lived nearby, for killing two Cherokees, and had mistakenly attacked the Wiley family who lived in one of the hollows that is now within the park. Jenny Wiley became pregnant and gave birth during the captivity, and learned the Cherokee lifestyle. Her dramatic escape in the spring o...
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4. Middle Creek National Battlefield Prestonsburg
The Battle of Middle Creek was an engagement fought January 10, 1862, in Eastern Kentucky during the American Civil War.
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5. East Kentucky Science Center and Planetarium Prestonsburg
The East Kentucky Science Center was once a private, non-profit science center and planetarium located on the main campus of Big Sandy Community and Technical College in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. As of 2008, the EKSC became part of Big Sandy Community and Technical College, which now funds and operates the Science Center.. The center features a planetarium, exhibit hall with traveling exhibits, science classrooms, and gift shop.
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6. Claiborne Farm Paris Kentucky
Claiborne Farm is a thoroughbred horse breeding operation near Paris, Kentucky. It was established in 1910 by Arthur B. Hancock, owner of Ellerslie Farm in Albemarle County, Virginia, and has been operated by members of his family ever since.
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7. Portsmouth Floodwall Mural Portsmouth Ohio
Portsmouth is a city in and the county seat of Scioto County, Ohio, United States. Located in southern Ohio 41 miles south of Chillicothe, it lies on the north bank of the Ohio River, across from Kentucky, just east of the mouth of the Scioto River. The population was 20,226 at the 2010 census.
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8. Fort Boonesborough State Park Richmond Kentucky
Fort Boonesborough was a frontier fort in Kentucky, founded by Daniel Boone and his men following their crossing of the Kentucky River on April 1, 1775. The settlement they founded, known as Boonesborough, Kentucky, is Kentucky's second oldest European-American settlement. The first form of representative government in Kentucky was held here in May 1775. By that summer, Boonesborough consisted of 26 one-story log cabins and four blockhouses.The fort was the scene of much action during the western theater of the American Revolutionary War. In September 1778, the fort withstood an attack by American Indians in what would later be called The Great Siege.
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9. Natural Bridge State Resort Park Slade
Natural Bridge State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park located in Powell and Wolfe Counties along the Middle Fork of the Red River, adjacent to the Red River Gorge Geologic Area and surrounded by the Daniel Boone National Forest. Its namesake natural bridge is the centerpiece of the park. The natural sandstone arch spans 78 ft and is 65 ft high. The natural process of weathering formed the arch over millions of years. The park is approximately 2,300 acres of which approximately 1,200 acres is dedicated by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves as a nature preserve. In 1981 this land was dedicated into the nature preserves system to protect the ecological communities and rare species habitat. The first federally endangered Virginia big eared bats, Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus, re...
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10. Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Middlesboro
The Cumberland Gap is a narrow pass through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains, near the junction of the U.S. states of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. Famous in American colonial history for its role as a key passageway through the lower central Appalachians, it was an important part of the Wilderness Road and is now part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park. Long used by Native Americans, the Cumberland Gap was brought to the attention of settlers in 1750 by Thomas Walker, a Virginia physician and explorer. The path was used by a team of frontiersmen led by Daniel Boone, making it accessible to pioneers who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee.
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11. Red River Gorge Geological Area Winchester Kentucky
The Red River is a 97.2-mile-long tributary of the Kentucky River in east-central Kentucky in the United States. Via the Kentucky and Ohio rivers, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. It rises in the mountainous region of the Cumberland Plateau, in eastern Wolfe County, approximately 15 miles east of Campton. It flows generally west, through Red River Gorge in the Daniel Boone National Forest, then past Stanton and Clay City. It joins the Kentucky approximately 11 miles southeast of Winchester. In 1993, a 20-mile stretch of the river in the Red River Gorge was designated by the federal government as a National Wild and Scenic River. The book The Unforeseen Wilderness by Wendell Berry was written to deter the Army Corps of Engineers from damming the Red River Gorge in 1971.
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Prestonsburg Videos

Visit Eastern Kentucky

This brief video will show you some of the amazing activities and events we have in Eastern Kentucky this summer!

In Prestonsburg, Kentucky at the East Kentucky Science Center, we have the Hubble Space Telescope Exhibit where everyone can have a fun hands on experience learning about the Hubble Telescope! Adults are $6.00 and Students and Seniors are $4.00.

Then in Pikeville, we have the University of Pikeville that has the Khirbet el-Maqatir and a Journey through Biblical History exhibit. This walk-through exhibit will feature over 250 artifacts from the world of the Bible. Of particular interest, will be artifacts from the site of Khirbet el-Maqatir - the likely location of Ai mentioned in the book of Joshua and the possible site of Ephraim of the book of John. Standard admission is $10.

Pikeville is also a great place for some adventure! Zip, Saddle and Paddle is a great package that will let you zip line through the mountains, ride horseback on our trails, and paddle down the Levisa Fork river a certified Blue Water Trail through the Cut-Through Project for $69!

Come to Eastern Kentucky, we have something for everyone!

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Pikeville, Kentucky Road Trip!!!

I along with; Boo (my husband), Jahnee` (my sister), Derek (a friend), decided to go on a road trip to Mountain Vapors in Pikeville, Kentucky. We chose to visit this store because Boo and Derek are both fans of the YouTube Channel, created by this vape shop.
After leaving Mountain Vapors we went down the road to Gatti's, which is a pizza buffet with an arcade. If you're from Ohio, it's basically like an adult version of Chucky Cheese.
To and from Pikeville you will see us stop at a sweet gas station in Falls Creek, Louisa, Kentucky. This place is called The Paveillon. Inside, you will see a collection of outfits and instruments, that once belonged to musical artists from back in the day, lining the top of the back wall.
This gas station also has a Baskin Robbins inside and a Taco Bell attached. Outside there was patio sitting area that had a stone grill and tables and chairs. I enjoyed my time there!

I hope you enjoyed this video! If you liked it, please give it a thumbs up and feel free to share!
GOD Bless! :)

BOTTOM of Dewey Lake Spillway with a GoPro!

Lake: Dewey Lake
Location: Jenny Wiley State Park, Prestonsburg, KY

Not as many fish as expected, however this fishery is in good standing compared to my other video (Fishtrap Spillway about 35 miles away).

pikeville, ky tourism

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Pikeville, ky tourism..a small city in the eastern part of ky. Most notably known for the coal industry and the start of the Hatfield/McCoy feud.

Kentucky State Parks Elk Tours

Elk Viewing Tours are available at Jenny Wiley State Resort Park in Prestonsburg. Call the park for details and reservations. (Jenny Wiley is 606-889-1790)

Civil War - Battle of Richmond | Kentucky Life | KET

The Kentucky Life feature on the 1862 Battle of Richmond has been nominated by the Ohio Valley Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for a Regional Emmy Award.

The Battle of Richmond, Aug. 29-30, 1862, was the largest Civil War battle in Kentucky until the troops met again in October in Perryville.

In the hot, dry summer of 1862, Confederate and Union soldiers met in Madison County for a two-day battle.

Confederate Gen. Kirby Smith was pushing deep into the heart of Central Kentucky from the south. There was disagreement on the Union side on how to defend Richmond against the more experienced Confederate troops. The abolitionist Cassius Clay, a Union major general, wanted to make a stand on the bluffs of the Kentucky River. His view lost out and he was relieved of command four days before the battle.

Instead, Union Maj. Gen. William Bull Nelson ordered troops deployed in nearby Lancaster and Danville. Brig. Gen. Mahlon D. Manson however, did not receive the message to move toward Lancaster. He moved just south of Richmond instead, and Smith's Confederate forces were waiting. Retreating Union forces were at Richmond Cemetery when Nelson arrived to rally them. A large man at 300 pounds, he is reported to have said, Boys, if they can't hit something as big as I am, they can't hit anything. He was shot in the thigh and there his rally ended.

Of the 6,500 Union troops, 206 were killed, 844 were wounded, and 4,303 were missing. In contrast, the Confederate losses were 98 killed, 492 wounded, and 10 missing.

Now the Battle of Richmond Association works to preserve these hallowed grounds where almost 300 soldiers died. Battlefield Park is located on U.S. 421 across from the Blue Grass Army Depot.

There were 751 total Ohio Valley Regional Emmy Award entries this year, a record number, and only 291 received nominations. Nineteen KET productions and programs were nominated for an Emmy Award. This segment was produced by Paul Smith.

To see other KET nominated features, visit

Eastern Kentucky Flooding Drone Video

Aerial footage of the unprecedented flooding in Eastern Kentucky.

For licensing or usage request, email: benchildersphotography@gmail.com

Filmed with a DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone. Feel free to message me about drone video inquiries!

Locations:

Cumberland River - Barbourville, Knox County, Kentucky

Cumberland River - Pineville, Bell County, Kentucky

Cumberland River - Harlan, Harlan County, Kentucky

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