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The 400-Mile Sale, sometimes referred to as the Highway 68 Yard Sale, is an outdoor second-hand sale held annually for four days, beginning in the first weekend of June. [1] It takes place along U.S. Route 68 (US 68) in the U.S. state of Kentucky . [ 2 ]
A shot tower is a tower designed for the production of small-diameter shot balls by free fall of molten lead, which is then caught in a water basin. The shot is primarily used for projectiles in shotguns , and for ballast , radiation shielding , and other applications for which small lead balls are useful.
The first map of Kentucky, presented in 1784 by author John Filson to the United States Congress [2]. Author, historian, founder and surveyor John Filson worked as a schoolteacher in Lexington, Kentucky and wrote The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke in 1784.
The remainders of KY 21, KY 169, and KY 257 still retained their original alignments off the current US 421. KY 50 no longer exists in the state route system. KY 66 is now assigned to a road in Bell , western Leslie and eastern Clay Counties in southeast Kentucky from Middlesboro to US 421/KY 80 near Big Creek
Glendale was the site of the first organized woman suffrage association in Kentucky. Mary Barr Clay included in her summary of Kentucky women's suffrage activities in the History of Woman Suffrage included a report given in The Revolution from Glendale: "We organized here an association with twenty members the first of October, 1867, and now have fifty.
It is located in northeastern Kentucky, at the intersection of Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 23 in Catlettsburg, Kentucky near the cities of Ashland, Kentucky and Huntington, West Virginia. The facility was built in 1916 by the Great Eastern Refining Company and purchased in 1924 by the Ashland Refining Company .
Kentucky lawmakers are moving to close loopholes in the state’s Vintage Distilled Spirits law, which has created a thriving but legally questionable market in highly sought-after bourbons ...
This event also extended KY 56 to its eastern terminus at a junction with KY 81. [7] [8] Today, KY 81 has its northern terminus at KY 54's current western terminus at a junction with KY 2831 (formerly US 431). At one time, KY 54 traversed the Yeaman community in northwestern Grayson County. [9] KY 54 was rerouted to bypass that area by 1949. [10]