Kentuckys 120 Counties

Author : Carl Howell
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ISBN 13 : 9781941953679
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky's 120 Counties written by Carl Howell and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky's 120 Counties: A Postcard Album (1900-1925) gives viewers a front-row seat into the past that enables them to see, for the first time, people, places, and events during a remarkable period in the state's history. Patrons purchased postcards at local drugstores, dry goods establishments, and country stores to catch a glimpse of their hometowns in postcard format. Postcards also portrayed neighboring communities, rural scenes, and people engaging in both work and play. In a time before photojournalism, postcards provided something that newspapers of the time could not; postcards put a face on the news and on the world itself.A 1908 postcard of William Jennings Bryan speaking in Lebanon, Kentucky, sold like hotcakes. In Leitchfield, a local photographer took his camera to the Grayson County Fair and leaned over the rail to capture an electrifying image of a jockey on his horse, barreling down the track with a whip between his teeth.Such spectacular moments and glimpses of everyday life form the heart of this book. Some images provide the only visual records of early communities and their railroad depots, grist mills, country stores, and churches. Other photos depict anglers fishing for "green bass" in Kinniconick, grandiose hotels erected beside rural springs, a man hunting quail in Salem, and converts being baptized in the flood waters of the Ohio River.This book is a panoramic view of the Bluegrass State and America in the early 1900s. Look into the lives and the eyes of the people, and you might just see your own hopes, dreams, failures, and successes come into focus.

Author : Charles McGrew
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ISBN 13 : 9781500573072
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky County Profiles 2014-15 _Black and White Edition written by Charles McGrew and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2014-15 Kentucky County Profile contains a mixture of education, population, employment, and other data about each of Kentucky's 120 counties, as well as breakouts for each of the state's Area Development Districts, Workforce Investment Areas, and Appalachian and Non-Appalachian regions. This publication has been compiled and produced by the Kentucky Center for Education and Workforce Statistics (KCEWS) to help state and local policy makers and others have easy access to critical information about their regions. These data are compiled from the Kentucky Longitudinal Data System and a variety of federal, state, and independent data sources and represents the most current information available.

Author : Robert M. Ireland
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189160
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The County in Kentucky History written by Robert M. Ireland and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, Kentucky was one of the nation's leading producers of racehorses, whiskey, tobacco—and new counties. By 1886 the three original Kentucky counties had been carved into 119 (belated 120th was to be formed in 1912). These small divisions commanded the fierce loyalty of their citizens and for most Kentuckians formed the center of political and community life. The County in Kentucky History shows the bitter strife of countywide feuds and the conviviality of court day, the sporadic outbreaks of ill-feeling between town and country and the high-spirited brawls that regularly accompanied elections. Robert M. Ireland traces the structural changes in county government from the days when justices of the peace made up a self-perpetuating county court to the more democratic period when the buying of votes replaced the buying of offices. The most beneficial change that could come to local government—consolidation into fewer units—Ireland sees as unlikely where the tradition of county loyalties and rivalries remains as strong as it does in Kentucky.

Author : Robert M. Ireland
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813194679
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Kingdoms written by Robert M. Ireland and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kentucky's counties though theoretically provinces of the state were in reality powerful semi-sovereign entities during the latter half of the 19th century. Their positive accomplishments were many. Government funds were wisely invested in internal improvements, road construction, law enforcement, tax collection, and relief of the poor. Keen competition for county offices, placed on an electoral basis by the Constitution of 1850, brought added vitality to Kentucky's uniquely intense political life, and the official day on which the county courts met continued to be the foremost social and economic day of the month. Despite these positive facets and the good intentions of the reformers of 1849-1850, however, Kentucky's counties retained a tradition of parochialism, corruption, and inefficiency. The establishment of elective offices eliminated few of the deficiencies of the county system. The railroads were the focus of rivalry and scandal. Prevailing lawlessness compounded the semi-anarchical condition of many of the counties. Rising crime rates rendered insecure the lives of many Kentuckians. Nineteenth-century Kentucky left no legacy of law and order. A grasp of this paradoxical situation is essential to an understanding of late 19th-century Kentucky history. In this probing study, Robert M. Ireland offers the first thorough examination of the impact of Kentucky's counties on the state's constitutional, political, social, and economic development during this period.

Author : Gary P. West
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ISBN 13 : 9781935001294
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 101 Must Places to Visit in Kentucky Before You Die written by Gary P. West and published by . This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary West traveled every corner of Kentucky to assemble this collection of must-see attractions in the Bluegrass State.

Author : Robert M. Rennick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813144019
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kentucky Place Names written by Robert M. Rennick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-04-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Union County, Kentucky written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Wayland Beers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
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Download or read book Growth of Population in Kentucky, 1860-1940 written by Howard Wayland Beers and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Armando J. Alfaro
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ISBN 13 : 9780974341200
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paper Trail of the Kentucky National Guard written by Armando J. Alfaro and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813138515
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Houses and Family Ghosts of Kentucky written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kentucky native and folk studies scholar presents a collection of haunting legends and stories of spirits from across the Bluegrass State. William Lynwood Montell has spent years documenting Kentucky’s rich legacy of ghostly visitations. Many of the stories were collected from elders by younger generations and are recounted here exactly as they were gathered. This volume introduces spirits such as the Tan Man of Pike County, who trudges invisibly through a house accompanied by the smell of roses, and the famed Gray Lady of Liberty Hall in Frankfort, a houseguest who never left. Montell tells the story of the ghost of Daniel Boone calling upon the statesman Henry Clay shortly before his death. He also recounts the tale of ghouls that haunt the rehearsal house of the band The Kentucky Headhunters. Readers will find accounts of haunted libraries, mansions, log cabins, bathrooms, furniture, hotels, and distilleries, as well as reports of eerie visitations from passed-on grandmothers, husbands, daughters, uncles, cousins, babies, slaves, Civil War soldiers, dogs, sheep, and even wildcats. Almost every county in Kentucky is represented. Though the book emphasizes the stories themselves, Montell offers an introduction discussing how local history, and local character, are communicated across the generations in these colorful stories.