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Traveler Resource 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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Traveler Resource Attractions In Kentucky

  • 1. Berea Welcome Center Berea
    Berea is a city in Cuyahoga County in the U.S. state of Ohio and is a western suburb of Cleveland. The population was 19,093 at the 2010 census. Berea is home to Baldwin Wallace University, as well as the training facility for the Cleveland Browns and the Cuyahoga County Fairgrounds.
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  • 2. Whitehaven Welcome Center Paducah
    Whitehaven is a town on the coast of Cumbria, England. Whitehaven may also refer to: CumbriaWhitehaven , 1832–1983 Whitehaven railway station Whitehaven, a rugby league team Whitehaven A.F.C., an amateur football clubCanadaWhitehaven, Ottawa, OntarioUnited StatesWhitehaven, Maryland Whitehaven Historic District Whitehaven Hotel, a historic building Whitehaven, Memphis, Tennessee Whitehaven , a historic house and state welcome center White Haven, Pennsylvania Whitehaven , Clinton family home Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, also known as White HavenAustraliaWhitehaven beach, on Whitsunday Island
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  • 3. Owensboro Convention Center Owensboro
    Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is the fourth-largest city in the state by population. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 about 107 miles southwest of Louisville, and is the principal city of the Owensboro metropolitan area. The 2015 population was 59,042. The metropolitan population was estimated at 116,506.
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  • 5. Kenton County Public Library Erlanger
    Kenton County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 159,720, making it the third most populous county in Kentucky . Its county seats are Covington and Independence. It was, until November 24, 2010, the only county in Kentucky to have two legally recognized county seats. The county was formed in 1840 and is named for Simon Kenton, a frontiersman notable in the early history of the state. Kenton County is included in the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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  • 6. Green River Lake - US Army Corps of Engineers Visitor Center Campbellsville
    Green River Lake is a 8,210-acre reservoir in Adair, Taylor, and Casey counties in Kentucky lying in the section of Kentucky known as the Highland Rim. The lake was developed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1969 by impounding the Green River. The dam is an 11-mile drive equidistant from the cities of Campbellsville and Columbia. The lake is located 90 miles southeast of Louisville. Operated and maintained primarily for flood control, the lake has become the major attraction of Green River Lake State Park.
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  • 8. Battle of Richmond Visitors Center Richmond Kentucky
    The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. The combat, between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Major General Ambrose Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee, was part of the Union Army's futile frontal attacks on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on the heights behind the city. It is remembered as one of the most one-sided battles of the war, with Union casualties more than three times as heavy as those suffered by the Confederates. A visitor to the battlefield described the battle to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln as a butchery.Burnside's plan was to cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in mid-Novem...
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  • 10. Lexington Visitors Center Lexington
    Lexington is the county seat of Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 18,931. It is located in central North Carolina, 20 miles south of Winston-Salem. Major highways include I-85, I-85B, U.S. Route 29, U.S. Route 70, U.S. Route 52 and U.S. Route 64. Lexington is part of the Piedmont Triad region of the state. Lexington, Thomasville, and the rural areas surrounding them are slowly developing as residential bedroom communities for nearby cities such as Winston-Salem, Greensboro, High Point and, to a lesser extent, Charlotte and its northeastern suburbs.
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  • 12. Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center Louisville
    Kentucky Women Remembered is an exhibit in the Kentucky State Capitol that honors the contributions of women from the Commonwealth. The exhibit consists of over 60 watercolor portraits of outstanding Kentucky women. The Kentucky Commission on Women receives nominations and selects two to four honorees each year to be included. The exhibit includes famous Kentucky musicians Loretta Lynn and Rosemary Clooney as well as civic leaders Mae Street Kidd and Georgia Davis Powers.Governor Edward T. Breathitt established a commission on the status of Kentucky women in April 1964. The commission determined that Kentucky women's status would be improved through a permanent agency and Governor Louie Nunn signed an executive order establishing the Kentucky Commission on Women in November 1968. Legislati...
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  • 13. Lexington Convention Center Lexington
    The following is a timeline of the history of Lexington, Kentucky, United States.
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  • 14. Historic Old Louisville Louisville
    Bowman Field is a public airport five miles southeast of downtown Louisville, in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The airport covers 426 acres and has two runways. The FAA calls it a reliever airport for nearby Louisville International Airport.
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