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Owsley Brown Frazier was a wealthy businessman and philanthropist in Louisville. [4] [8] When a tornado struck the city during the 1974 Super Outbreak, it destroyed Frazier's home, and a rare Kentucky long rifle that he owned – a family heirloom made for his great-great-grandfather in Bardstown in the 1820s and gifted to him by his grandfather in 1952 – disappeared. [9]
McCreary. South Central Kentucky. Mining. Open-air museum includes museum, barber shop, bath house, doctor's office, machine shop, mining motor displays, school/church house, 1890s reconstructed log cabin and mine tour. Behringer-Crawford Museum. Covington. Kenton. Northern Kentucky. Local history.
October 15, 1966. Designated NHL. December 19, 1960. Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.
The Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, [4] also referred to as the Kentucky Historical Society, [5] is the headquarters for the KHS. A multimillion-dollar museum and research facility, the center features both permanent and temporary exhibitions, a research library, and a gift shop. The center contains an exhibition called "A Kentucky ...
Kentucky Is My Land (1969) – KET's first ever instructional television documentary. The KET Story (September 23, 2018) – KET's 50th Anniversary program highlighting the network's history. Louisville Symphony in Moscow (1990) – concert film of the Louisville Symphony's performance abroad. On The Ohio (1987) – John Ed Pearce's journey ...
The Kentucky Railway Museum, now located in New Haven, Kentucky, United States, is a non-profit railroad museum dedicated to educating the public regarding the history and heritage of Kentucky's railroads and the people who built them. Originally created in 1954 in Louisville, Kentucky, the museum is at its third location, in extreme southern ...
The exhibit "Kentucky Women Excel" began at that year's Kentucky State Fair. In 1996 the exhibit was moved to a first floor hallway of the west wing of the Capitol building. The first 17 portraits were created by artist Paula Jull. [2] Other portrait artists that have created works for the exhibit include Alison Davis Lyne [3] and Mary Lou Hall ...
The Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC), is a large multi-use facility in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Originally built in 1956. [1] It is overseen by the Kentucky Venues and is the sixth largest facility of its type in the U.S., with 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m 2) of indoor space. KEC has two arenas (Broadbent Arena and Freedom Hall ...