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Benham – The Little Town That International Harvester, Coal Miners, and Their Families Built [4] Berea – Folk Arts and Crafts Capital of Kentucky [5] Bowling Green. Vette City [6] The Park City [7] Burnside – The Only Town on Lake Cumberland [8] Cave City – Gateway to Mammoth Cave [9] Covington – Gateway to the South [10] Crestwood ...
The Statue of Liberty, showing advanced patination; verdigris is responsible for the statue's iconic green colour.. Verdigris (/ ˈ v ɜːr d ɪ ɡ r iː (s)/) [1] is a common name for any of a variety of somewhat toxic [2] [3] [4] copper salts of acetic acid, which range in colour from green to a bluish-green depending on their chemical composition.
The Sulphur Well Historic District is an 81 acres (33 ha) historic district in Sulphur Well, Kentucky which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [ 1 ] It is roughly bounded by Wister Wallace Road, the southern fork of the Little Barren River , Mitchell-Edwards Road, and Kentucky Route 70 .
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Gray is an unincorporated community in Knox County, in southeastern Kentucky, United States. [1] The community is located along U.S. Route 25E 4.9 miles (7.9 km) East of Corbin. Gray has a post office with ZIP code 40734, which opened on January 25, 1888. [2] [3]
USGS physiographic map of Kentucky showing the location of the Knobs. The Knobs Region or The Knobs is located in the US state of Kentucky. It is a narrow, arc-shaped region consisting of hundreds of isolated hills. The region wraps around the southern and eastern parts of the Bluegrass region in the north central to northeastern part of the state.
Green County was formed in 1792 from portions of Lincoln and Nelson Counties. [2] Green was the 16th Kentucky county in order of formation. [3] The county is named for Revolutionary War hero General Nathanael Greene, but the reason why the final E is missing is unknown. [4] [5] Three courthouses have served Green County.
Kentucky Route 1 leads south 23 miles (37 km) to Grayson, and Kentucky Route 2 leads southwest 37 miles (60 km) to Olive Hill. According to the United States Census Bureau, Greenup has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km 2), of which 0.77 square miles (2.0 km 2) is land and 0.42 square miles (1.1 km 2), or 36.08%, is water. [10]