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State Park Attractions In Kentucky

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Kentucky , officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States. Although styled as the State of Kentucky in the law creating it, Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth . Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. Kentucky is the 37th most extensive and the 26th most populous of the 50 United States. Kentucky is known as the Bluegrass State, a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to the fertile soil. One of the major regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass Region in central Kentucky, which house...
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  • 1. My Old Kentucky Home Bardstown
    My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night! is an anti-slavery ballad originally written by Stephen Foster, composed in 1852. It was published in January 1853 by Firth, Pond, & Co. of New York. Foster likely composed the song after having been inspired by the narrative of popular anti-slavery novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, while likely referencing imagery witnessed on his visits to the Bardstown, Kentucky farm called Federal Hill.In Foster's sketchbook, the song was originally entitled Poor Uncle Tom, Good-Night!, but was altered by Foster as My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night! Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist, wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom that the song awakens sympathies for the slave, in which antislavery principles take root, grow, and flourish.
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  • 2. 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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  • 3. Wickliffe Mounds State Historic Site Wickliffe
    Wickliffe is a home rule-class city in Ballard County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 688 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ballard County.Wickliffe is part of the Paducah, KY-IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • 4. Carter Caves State Resort Park Olive Hill
    This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Carter County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Carter County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.There are 4 properties listed on the National Register in the county. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 2, 2018.
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  • 5. Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park London
    Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park is a state park located just south of London, Kentucky in Laurel County. The park encompasses 896 acres and includes a section of the Wilderness Road that early settlers used to reach Kentucky. The park is named for Levi Jackson, an early Kentucky pioneer. It serves as both a recreational and historic park.
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  • 6. 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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  • 7. Nolin Lake State Park Mammoth Cave
    Nolin Lake State Park is a park located in Edmonson County, Kentucky, United States. The park encompasses 333 acres while Nolin Lake, the park's main feature, covers 5,795 acres . The park is located on the northern perimeter of Mammoth Cave National Park.The park contains a small beach, a country store, boat ramp, 32 developed campsites, 27 primitive campsites, and a playground.On May 25, 1983, Nolin Lake set a record high of 549.9 mean sea level.
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  • 8. Green River Lake State Park Campbellsville
    Green River Lake State Park is a park located near Campbellsville, Kentucky in Taylor County. The park itself encompasses 1,331 acres , while Green River Lake, its major feature, covers approximately 8,200 acres .
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  • 9. Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park Dawson Springs
    Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park is a park located near Dawson Springs, Kentucky in Hopkins County. The park encompasses 863 acres and takes its name from a colloquial form of the word pennyroyal, a small flowering plant native to the area. Park features include a 24-room lodge with restaurant, 12 cottages, campground, multi-purpose trails, 18-hole golf course, and 56-acre lake with non-motorized boat rentals.
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  • 10. Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Kentucky
    Dale Hollow Lake State Resort Park is a Kentucky state park located on the Frogue Peninsula on the northern shore of Dale Hollow Reservoir in Clinton and Cumberland counties. The park comprises 3,400 acres .
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  • 11. General Burnside State Park Burnside
    Ambrose Everett Burnside was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island. He served as governor and as a United States Senator. As a Union Army general in the American Civil War, he conducted successful campaigns in North Carolina and East Tennessee, as well as countering the raids of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, but suffered disastrous defeats at the Battle of Fredericksburg and Battle of the Crater. His distinctive style of facial hair became known as sideburns, derived from his last name. He was also the first president of the National Rifle Association.
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  • 12. Lake Malone State Park Dunmor
    Lake Malone State Park is a 338-acre state park located near Dunmor, Kentucky, in Muhlenberg County and extending into parts of Logan County and Todd County. In addition to the 788-acre Lake Malone, the natural features of the park include sandstone cliffs and a natural rock bridge.
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  • 13. Kentucky Horse Park Lexington
    The following is a timeline of the history of Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
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  • 14. EP Louisville
    Dashboard Confessional is an American rock band from Boca Raton, Florida, led by singer-songwriter Chris Carrabba. The name of the band is derived from the song The Sharp Hint of New Tears off their debut album, The Swiss Army Romance.
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  • 15. Kingdom Come State Park Cumberland Kentucky
    Kingdom Come State Park is a part of Kentucky's state park system in Harlan County atop Pine Mountain near the city of Cumberland. It was named after the 1903 best-selling novel The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by native Kentuckian John Fox, Jr. Features of the park include Raven Rock, Log Rock, and a 3.5-acre mountain lake. The section of the park is also a legally dedicated state nature preserve by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves.
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