Wikipedia:WikiProject Kentucky/Portal

Outline and workspace for the creation and subsequent maintenance of Portal:Kentucky. See Portal and Portal/Guidelines for more information.

Bulletin: The Portal:Kentucky proposal was made on June 15, 2006 by CQ. This page was created 03:26, 17 June 2006 (UTC). The launch date for the actual portal is subject to consensus but can be no sooner than June 22, 2006

The Kentucky Portal

The Commonwealth of Kentucky, on June 1, 1792 became the fifteenth state to be admitted to the Union...
 * Selected article: Louisville, Kentucky, Thomas D. Clark.

Topics:
 * Geographical features:
 * Cumberland Gap
 * Category:History of Kentucky:
 * Battle of Blue Licks - American Revolutionary War
 * Battle of Perryville - American Civil War
 * History of Louisville, Kentucky
 * People
 * Economics
 * Unbridled Spirit
 * Politics
 * Kentucky as a Commonwealth
 * other topics
 * Kentucky as a Commonwealth
 * other topics
 * other topics

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Categories:
 * '''Category:Kentucky
 * '''Category:Geography of Kentucky
 * '''Category:History of Kentucky
 * more categories

Did you know..
 * ...that the Cumberland Gap Tunnel between Kentucky and Tennessee replaced a stretch of road that had been called "Massacre Mountain" because of the number of motorists killed there?
 * ...that The Battle of Blue Licks, on August 19, 1782 was the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War?
 * ...that during the American Civil War, the city of Louisville was threatened and surrounded by battles but never itself attacked?
 * ...that a Union General murdered another Union General at Louisville's Galt House during the American Civil War?
 * ...that Louisville's main Civil War memorial is a statue dedicated to Confederate soldiers, even though Louisville considered itself neutral at first (briefly), then adherent to the Union for the remainder of the war?
 * ...that for a long period of time after the Civil War, Kentucky was governed by former Confederates and Confederate sympathizers (the so-called Bourbon Democrats), despite the state being at first neutral, then declaratively Union during the war?
 * ...that Diamond Lake Resort in Owensboro, Kentucky sold on eBay for $1.2 million?
 * ...that Paducah is the only major city in Kentucky named after a Native American?
 * ...that Paducah has more markers interpreting historic sites than any other Kentucky city?

WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject U.S. states
 * WikiProject Kentucky
 * WikiProject Louisville

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 * Portal:United States
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