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Renfro Valley is home to the Renfro Valley Entertainment Center. Since being founded by local area native John Lair and others in 1939, Renfro Valley Entertainment Center has hosted the Renfro Valley Barn Dance, a traditional country music show which gave entertainers such as Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Red Foley, and Homer and Jethro the spotlight early in their careers.
Location of Johnson County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Johnson County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Johnson County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Bill Keightley, 81, American equipment manager for Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball since 1962, bleeding from spinal tumor. [289] Halszka Osmólska, 77, Polish palaeontologist. [290] David Todd, 93, American architect, designed Manhattan Plaza, former chairman of NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. [291]
Kentucky Music Hall of Fame will induct new members on Saturday, including Black Stone Cherry and Sturgill Simpson. Kentucky Headhunters concert kicks off Hall of Fame weekend at Renfro Valley ...
James Kennedy Patterson (March 26, 1833 – August 15, 1922) was an academic who served as the first president of the University of Kentucky. His family immigrated from Scotland to Indiana in 1842 when he was nine years old.
Lake Linville is a 356-acre (1.44 km 2) reservoir in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.It was created in 1968 [1] by the construction of the earthen Renfro Dam, 72 feet (22 m) high with a length of 1,100 feet (340 m), owned and operated by the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
One of Patterson's grandchildren, John H. Patterson, became a prominent Dayton citizen and founded the National Cash Register Company (now NCR Corporation) in 1884. Patterson's granddaughter Eliza Jane (Brown) Anderson was the First Lady of Ohio 1865–1866. Her husband was Governor Charles Anderson.
A second program was launched in the 1930s by National Barn Dance's then-president John Lair in Renfro Valley, Kentucky; the Renfro Valley Barn Dance still takes place weekly but is no longer aired on radio (although a sister program, the Renfro Valley Gatherin', does still air weekly on Sunday mornings).