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The Green River Shell Middens Archeological District is a historic district composed of archaeological sites in the U.S. state of Kentucky.All of the district's sites are shell middens along the banks of the Green River that date from the later portion of the Archaic period. [2]
The Maysville roadcut, located in northeastern Kentucky, features upper Ordovician rock and fossils. Maysville is located in Mason County, Kentucky, and contains a large roadcut along U.S. Route 68. The cut was human-made in the 1950s and consists of rock that is roughly 450 million years old. [1]
Mega Cavern, a cavern in Louisville, Kentucky created by limestone quarrying over 42 years during the middle of the 20th century. Deemed the largest building in the state, it has 4,000,000 square feet (370,000 m 2) and is now used for tourism including zip lines, for storage and other business.
This site is the center piece of the University of Kentucky's Adena Park and is located on a bank 75 feet (23 m) above Elkhorn Creek.It features a causewayed ring ditch with a circular 105-foot (32 m) diameter platform, surrounded by a 45-foot (14 m) wide ditch and a 13-foot (4.0 m) wide enclosure with a 33-foot (10 m) wide entryway facing to the west.
Obsidian scalpels older than 2100 BC have been found in a Bronze Age settlement in Turkey. [48] In the eastern Mediterranean area the material was used to make tools, mirrors and decorative objects. [49] The use of obsidian tools was present in Japan near areas of volcanic activity. [50] [51] Obsidian was mined during the Jōmon period.
US 150 (Springfield Avenue/East Stephen Foster Avenue) to US 62 / Bluegrass Parkway – Springfield, Mt. Washington, Elizabethtown, My Old Kentucky Home State Park: Northern terminus; 62 and state park to the west, parkway to the east: 1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
As of Aug. 5, three Kentucky stores were scheduled for closure, according to the Big Lots website. As of Oct. 1, the list is now at five stores. Big Lots is closing more than 3 Kentucky stores.
Kentucky Route 329 Bypass (KY 329 Bypass) is a 2.062-mile (3.318 km) [1] long bypass route of KY 329 around the northern edge of Crestwood. The western terminus of the route is at KY 329 roughly 0.5 miles (0.80 km) south of where KY 329 meets I-71. The bypass heads east as four-lane undivided Veterans Memorial Parkway, passing through fields.