Portal:Kentucky/Did you know.../5

...that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
...that Bill Keightley is one of only two people who have never played for nor coached the Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball team to have their jerseys retired by the University of Kentucky?
...that the story of Stephen Foster visiting what is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property?
...that the Kentucky General Assembly responded to unpopular rulings by Justice William Owsley by dissolving the Court of Appeals on which he served?
...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 John Y. Brown was censured by his peers for unparliamentary language during a speech denouncing General Benjamin F. Butler?
...that the murder of Solomon P. Sharp was the inspiration for a number of literary works, including Edgar Allan Poe's only play, Politian?