Portal:Kentucky/Did you know.../6

...that the Confederate Monument (pictured) in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere?
...that one of Kentucky's first two judges, James John Floyd, was once a privateer?
...that three-foot tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee?
...that Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur, France?
... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus?
... that the Valley View Ferry, Kentucky's oldest business, is seven years older than the state itself?
...that Kentucky governor Flem D. Sampson declined the Du Pont family's offer to purchase Cumberland Falls and donate it to the state for a state park?
...that poet Forceythe Willson believed he was clairvoyant and that he could serve as a medium for communication with the dead?