Portal:Kentucky/Did you know
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[edit] Did you know...
- ...that in 1824, the Kentucky General Assembly responded to a disfavorable ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals by abolishing the court and replacing it with a new one?
- ...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"?
- ...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy?
- ...that the Hurricane Creek mine disaster, which killed 38 men in 1970, occurred exactly a year after passage of the first federal legislation regulating mine safety?
- ...that the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky, and the founding of what would become Morehead State University?
- ...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
- ...that Fancy Farm, Kentucky is recognized as the home of the world's largest picnic?
- ...that Confederate brigadier general James Morrison Hawes studied advanced military tactics at the Cavalry School of Saumur, France?
- ...that one of the largest slave escape attempts in American history occurred in Kentucky in August 1848?
- ...that the Commonwealth of Kentucky had a Confederate shadow government during the U.S. Civil War, although it never officially seceded from the Union?
