Travel Notes: North America: Kentucky Travel Notes

Kentucky is also known as the Bluegrass State, after early pioneers found bluish-purple buds growing on Kentucky's rich limestone soil and traders began asking for the seed of the 'blue grass from Kentucky'.

The state capital of Kentucky is Frankfort.

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Kentucky get its name from the Kentucky River, and is famous for its bourbon and thoroughbred horses.

States neighbouring Kentucky are: Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia and Tennessee.

Virtual Kentucky:
Kentucky's attractions from the State of Kentucky's website.

Abraham Lincoln was born near Hodgenville in Kentucky, so naturally the log cabin is a national historic site.

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Frankfort

The settlement was originally called Frank's Ford in honour of Stephen Frank, a frontiersman killed in 1780 during a skirmish with Native Americans at a ford in the river.

The State Capitol is modelled after the United States Capitol.

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Louisville

George Rogers Clark founded the first settlement here in 1778; an area once inhabited by the Shawnee people.

Originally located on Corn Island in the Ohio River, the settlement was moved to its present site in 1779, and named after Louis XVI of France; in gratitude for French assistance during the American War of Independence.

Go to Louisville:
The largest collection of Victorian homes in the United States and the third largest historically preserved district in the United States is located in Old Louisville.

Louisville Slugger:
The museum is a shrine to baseball's most famous bat.

The Kentucky Derby:
Held at Louisville's Churchill Downs on the first Saturday in May each year; make reservations well in advance.

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Mammoth Cave

Mammoth Cave:
The National Park, in south-western Kentucky, is home to the longest known cave system in the world.

Its series of limestone chambers and narrow passages on five separate levels are connected to two other nearby cave systems to form 560 km of charted passageways.

The Wild Cave Tour takes six hours, although there are shorter tours available. It's cool down there, so bring something warm.

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