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Herd Profile: Kentucky!
Do you live in Kentucky? Grew up here? Or just want to know more about the Horse Capital of the World, well join us and come meet other cool Kentuckians like you. Things you might or might now know: Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on the fact that bluegrass is present in many of the lawns and pastures throughout the state. It is a land with diverse environments and abundant resources, including the world's longest cave system, the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the Lower 48 states, and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River. It is also home to the highest per capita number of deer and turkey in the United States, and the nation's most productive coalfield. Kentucky is also known for thoroughbred horses, horse racing, bourbon distilleries, bluegrass music, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, and college basketball. State Motto: United we stand, divided we fall. Latin Motto: Deo gratiam habeamus (Let Us Be Grateful In God) (Effective: July 15, 2002 History: Created 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 314, sec. 1, effective July 15, 2002.) Fun Facts: • Pike County the world's largest producer of coal is famous for the Hatfield-McCoy feud, an Appalachian vendetta that lasted from the Civil War to the 1890s. • Chevrolet Corvettes are manufactured in Bowling Green • Pikeville annually leads the nation in per capita consumption of Pepsi-Cola. • Mammoth Cave is the world's longest cave and was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States. Niagara Falls, New York is first. • The first Miss America from Kentucky is Heather Renee French. She was crowned September 18, 1999. • Kentucky is the state where both Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, were born. They were born less than one hundred miles and one year apart. • The town of Corbin was the birthplace of old time movie star Arthur Lake whose real surname was Silverlake: He played the role of Dagwood in the "Blondie" films of the 1930s and ‘40s. Lake's parents were trapeze artists billed as The Flying Silverlakes. • Thunder Over Louisville is the opening ceremony for the Kentucky Derby Festival and is the world's largest fireworks display • The great Man o' War won all of his horse races except one which he lost to a horse named Upset. • Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca are buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Their son Isaac is buried at Blue Licks Battlefield near Carlisle, where he was killed in the last battle of the Revolutionary War fought in Kentucky. • The radio was invented by a Kentuckian named Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray in 1892. It was three years before Marconi made his claim to the invention. • The brass plate embedded in the sidewalk at the corner of Limestone and Main Street in downtown Lexington is a memorial marker honoring Smiley Pete. The animal was known as the town dog in Lexington. He died in 1957. • The public saw an electric light for the first time in Louisville. Thomas Edison introduced his incandescent light bulb to crowds at the Southern Exposition in 1883. • The song "Happy Birthday to You" was the creation of two Louisville sisters in 1893.
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