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History of Kentucky. The prehistory and history of Kentucky span thousands of years, and have been influenced by the state's diverse geography and central location. Archaeological evidence of human occupation in Kentucky begins approximately 9,500 BCE.
- The First People in Kentucky
- Wilderness Road to Statehood
- Native American Land Cessions and Trail of Tears
- Slavery and The Civil War
- Bourbon, Horse Racing and Bluegrass Music
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For 200 years, most historians argued that Native Americans didn’t live in the area now known as Kentucky and instead used the land sporadically for hunting and trapping. However, petroglyphs, stone tools and other archeological evidence suggests that Indigenous people have lived on the land for more than 12,000 years. The myth of an unpopulated Ke...
Dr. Thomas Walker and surveyor Christopher Gist first explored the area now known as Kentucky in 1750 and 1751. The outbreak of the Seven Years War prevented further exploration until frontiersman Daniel Boonevisited Kentucky in 1769 and recognized the potential of the area’s natural resources. In 1775, a group of settlers created the Transylvania ...
In the late 1700s and early 1800s, a growing number of white settlers arriving in Kentucky on the Wilderness Road clashed with Indigenous people over land. Hoping to push settlers out of Kentucky, Native American warriors from the Shawnee, Hurons, Shawnee, Wyandot, Mingo and other tribes fought against the colonists alongside their British trading ...
Slavery existed in Kentucky since the first settlers arrived, and it was written into the state’s original constitution. By 1830, Black people made up 24 percentof Kentucky’s population. An 1833 law banned the importation and sale of slaves, but was overturned in 1849. At the same time, a movement to ban slavery in Kentucky was unsuccessful. During...
Kentucky’s climate is ideal for producing and distilling whiskey, which has been produced in the state since the first white settlers arrived. Whiskey was first produced in Bourbon county, which became nationally recognized as a whiskey variation by the mid-19th century. Kentucky has since become the world’s bourbon capital: According to the Kentuc...
United States Census Bureau, Quick Facts: Kentucky Encyclopedia of North Carolina, Transylvania Company Wilderness Road: Virginia's Heritage Migration Route, Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail Kentucky Historical Society, Transylvania Company Mitchell County Historical Society, Sycamore Shoals and the Start of the March National Park Service: Mammoth Ca...
History of Kentucky. Exploration and settlement. Daniel Boone, lithograph after a painting by J.W. Berry. Long before the arrival of Europeans, the Kentucky region was inhabited by indigenous agricultural and hunting peoples who left behind burial and ceremonial mounds that remain prominent features of the landscape today.
2 giorni fa · Kentucky has always existed in the middle: as a state looking back and ahead, as a crossroads for westward expansion, and as a territory with divided allegiance during the American Civil War (1861–65).
One of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth, Kentucky was originally a part of Virginia. Once a noted hunting ground of the American Indians, it was continuously inhabited as early as 1,000 B.C. to about 1650 A.D., exclusively by Native Americans.
June 16, 1774, James Harrod founded Harrod's Town (modern Harrodsburg). The settlement was abandoned during the conflict period of Dunmore's War, and resettled in March 1775, becoming the first permanent European settlement in Kentucky.
Take a look through the centuries at an overview of Kentucky's rich history.
