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Kentucky Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps & Calendar
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geography > NA > US > S > KENTUCKY < social studies
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Kentucky, known as the “Bluegrass State” and one of four states organized as a “commonwealth” (Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia are the others), joined the Union on June 1, 1792 as the 15th state.
Kentucky, in the East South Central Region (US Census Bureau) is bordered by the midwestern states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north across the Ohio River, West Virginia and Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and the western border with Missouri formed by the Mississippi River.
Regions of Kentucky are the Cumberland Plateau, a part of the Appalachian Mountains in the east, the south-central and western Pennyroyal (Pennyrile) Plateau, the north-central Bluegrass region and the far-west Jackson Purchase.
The area known as Kentucky today was primarily hunting grounds for Native Americans like the Shawnee from the north across the Ohio River and the Cherokees from the south. Explorer in the region include the gold seeking Hernando de Soto's expedition in 1540 and 1541; in 1750 Dr. Thomas Walker led a scouting party from Virginia; and Daniel Boone established the Wilderness Trail though the Cumberland Gap, in 1775.
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The United States Bullion Depository is commonly called Fort Knox as it is located in a fortified vault building adjacent to the US Army post at Fort Knox. The fort is named for Revolutionary War officer and first Secretary of War Henry Knox.
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Goldenrod, the State Flower of Kentucky, is a yellow flowering plant with slender stems that grow in ditches along roads and waste area throughout the United States. FYI - Goldenrod blossoms as a natural dye will give a yellow color.
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The Appalachian dulcimer is the State Musical Instrument of Kentucky. From the zither family, the dulcimer is a fretted string instrument, typically with three or four strings.
FYI - Berea College, founded in 1855 by abolitionists, was the first non-segregated, coeducational college in the South.
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Henry Clay
b. 4-12-1777; Virginia
d. 6-29-1852; Washington, DC
Statesman and orator Henry Clay, known as the “Great Compromiser” and the “Great Pacifer”, represented Kentucky in the House of Representatives and Senate. He was part of the “Great Trimvirate” of fellow statesmen Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun.
• Henry Clay: Statesman for the Union
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Lincoln Birth Place, Hardin County, Kentucky
“I was born Feb 12, 1809 in Hardin Co. Kentucky. My parents were both born in Virginia. My mother, who died in my tenth year, was of a family named Hanks. My father at the death of his father was but six years of age, and he grew up literally without education.” ... from the Inscription in Memorial Hall.
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