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Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky/Portal

Outline and workspace for the creation and subsequent maintenance of Portal:Kentucky. See Wikipedia:Portal and Wikipedia:Portal/Guidelines for more information.

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Bulletin: The Portal:Kentucky proposal was made on June 15, 2006 by CQ. This page was created 03:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC). The launch date for the actual portal is subject to consensus but can be no sooner than June 22, 2006

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The Kentucky Portal

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, on June 1, 1792 became the fifteenth state to be admitted to the Union...

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Did you know..

  • ...that the Cumberland Gap Tunnel between Kentucky and Tennessee replaced a stretch of road that had been called "Massacre Mountain" because of the number of motorists killed there?
  • ...that The Battle of Blue Licks, on August 19, 1782 was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War?
  • ...that during the American Civil War, the city of Louisville was threatened and surrounded by battles but never itself attacked?
  • ...that a Union General murdered another Union General at Louisville's Galt House during the American Civil War?
  • ...that Louisville's main Civil War memorial is a statue dedicated to Confederate soldiers, even though Louisville considered itself neutral at first (briefly), then adherent to the Union for the remainder of the war?
  • ...that for a long period of time after the Civil War, Kentucky was governed by former Confederates and Confederate sympathizers (the so-called Bourbon Democrats), despite the state being at first neutral, then declaratively Union during the war?
  • ...that Diamond Lake Resort in Owensboro, Kentucky sold on eBay for $1.2 million?
  • ...that Paducah is the only major city in Kentucky named after a Native American?
  • ...that Paducah has more markers interpreting historic sites than any other Kentucky city?

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