Portal:Kentucky/Did you know.../7
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- ...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument (pictured) is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney?
- ... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
- ... that the tiny Dinkey Train of only a passenger coach and dummy engine went to Mammoth Cave?
- ... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers?
- ...that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station?
- ...that American pioneer John Bowman, granduncle of Kentucky University founder John Bryan Bowman, presided over the first county court held in Kentucky?
- ...that the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Cross of Honors than those from any other Kentucky county?