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The Rockcastle River Railway was a line created by the Bond Foley lumber company to extract timber from Jackson County, Kentucky. It intersected the Louisville and Nashville Railroad line at East Bernstadt, Kentucky.
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The Rockcastle River Railway was a line created by the Bond Foley lumber company to extract timber from Jackson County, Kentucky. It intersected the Louisville and Nashville Railroad line at East Bernstadt, Kentucky.
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Kentucky borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the northeast, Virginia to the east, Tennessee to the south, and Missouri to the west. Its northern border is defined by the Ohio River. Its capital is Frankfort and its largest city is Louisville. As of 2020, the population was approximately 4.5 million.
The Kentucky Derby is an American Grade I stakes race run at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The race is run by three-year-old Thoroughbreds at a distance of 1+1⁄4 miles. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds and fillies 121 pounds.
Paris Landing State Park is an 841-acre (3.4 km2) state park located on the western bank of Kentucky Lake in Buchanan, Henry County, Tennessee.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.
Parkway Field is the name of a baseball park that stood in Louisville, Kentucky on the University of Louisville campus. It was home to college, minor league, and negro league teams, with the longest stints by the Louisville Colonels of the American Association from 1923 into the mid-1950s, and the University of Louisville baseball team for several decades until they abandoned it in 1998 in favor of Cardinal Stadium. The grandstand that allowed professional baseball to be played at the venue in the first half of the 20th century was torn down in 1961.
Oneida is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clay County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 238 at the 2020 census. It is the home of Oneida Baptist Institute. Goose Creek, the Red Bird River, and Bullskin Creek confluence to form the South Fork of the Kentucky River a few hundred yards from the center of the town.
Aceso or Akeso was the Greek goddess of well-being and the healing process worshipped in Athens and Epidauros.
Kentucky Thunder, or Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, is the band that plays with American country and bluegrass singer Ricky Skaggs. Many members of the band have won numerous awards. Bandleader Ricky Skaggs plays mandolin and is the lead vocalist. The group has won the Instrumental Group of the Year award from the International Bluegrass Music Association multiple times, as well as seven Grammy Awards.
Area code 502 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan for north-central Kentucky. The numbering plan area includes the city of Louisville, its suburbs, and the state capital, Frankfort.
WLTO is a commercial radio station licensed to Nicholasville, Kentucky and serving the Lexington radio market. It is owned by Cumulus Media and broadcasts a top 40 radio format. The radio studios and offices are inside Kincaid Towers in downtown Lexington, and its transmitter is just south of the Fayette/Jessamine county line on Brannon Road.
Anwar Stewart is an American football coach and former player who is currently the defensive line coach for the Kentucky Wildcats. He played college football for the Kentucky Wildcats and played in the Canadian Football League (CFL) for 13 seasons.
Dan Neal is a former American football player who played offensive line for eleven seasons between 1973 and 1983 for the Baltimore Colts and the Chicago Bears. He was named offensive line coach in 2007 for Texas vs. The Nation Game, winning a 24–20 victory in Sun Bowl Stadium.
The 1951 Sugar Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, 1951. The 17th playing of the Sugar Bowl, it was one of the 1950–51 bowl games concluding the 1950 college football season.
Beefhide is an unincorporated community spanning across a county line between Letcher County and Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Benito is an unincorporated community and coal camp in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. Benito is located on the Clover Fork, near the city of Evarts, Kentucky. The small community is located between the communities of Gano and Highsplint.
Pruden is an unincorporated community located partly in Bell County, Kentucky and partly in Claiborne County, Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It is located along Tennessee State Route 90 and Kentucky Route 74, which intersect at the state line, in the upper Clearfork Valley.
The 1917 Kentucky Wildcats football team represented the University of Kentucky as an independent during the 1917 college football season. Led by Stanley A. Boles in his first and only season as head coach, the Wildcats compiled a record of 3–5–1. The season ended on a high note with the 52–0 defeat of Florida.
The 1935 Kentucky Wildcats football team was an American football team that represented the University of Kentucky as a member of the Southeastern Conference (SEC) during the 1935 college football season. In their second season under head coach Chet A. Wynne, the Wildcats compiled an overall record of 5–4 with a mark of 3–3 against conference opponents, tied for sixth place in the SEC, and outscored opponents by a total of 167 to 94. The team played its home games at McLean Stadium in Lexington, Kentucky.
The 1982 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team was an American football team that represented Western Kentucky University as an independent during the 1982 NCAA Division I-AA football season. Led by 15th-year head coach Jimmy Feix, the Hilltoppers compiled a record of 5–5. The team's captain was Tom Fox.
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