Kentucky State Facts and History

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    Kentucky Quick Facts

    • Current Governor: Andy Beshear (Democrat)
    • Capital: Frankfort
    • Population: 4,467,673 (2019 est.)
    • Land Area: 39,486.34 sq km
    • Water Area: 921.46 sq km
    • Total Area: 40,407.80 SQ KM
    • Width: 170 mi (250 km)
    • Length: 379 mi (610 km)
    • State Motto: “United We Stand, Divided We Fall”
    • Nickname: Bluegrass State
    • Electoral votes: 8
    • Seats in U.S. House of Representatives: 6 (of 435)
    • State Song: “My Old Kentucky Home”
    • Date of Statehood: June 1, 1792
    • Time Zone: Eastern (GMT − 5 hours)
    • Official Website of Kentucky: kentucky.gov
    • State abbreviation/Postal code: KY
    • Origin of name: The origin of the name “Kentucky” is not known with any certainty. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning “land of tomorrow”

    State Symbol of Kentucky

    State Bird Cardinal
    State Butterfly Viceroy butterfly
    State Dance Clogging
    State Drink Milk
    State Fish Kentucky spotted bass
    State Flower Goldenrod
    State Fossil Brachiopod
    State Fruit Blackberry
    State Gemstone Freshwater pearl
    State Horse Thoroughbred horse
    State Mineral Coal
    State Motto United we stand, divided we fall
    State Music Bluegrass music
    State Musical Instrument Appalachian dulcimer
    State Nickname Bluegrass State
    State Rock Kentucky agate
    State Silverware Pattern Old Kentucky Blue Grass, The Georgetown Pattern
    State Soil Crider soil series
    State Tree Tulip tree
    State Wild Animal Game Species Gray squirrel

    College & Universities

    Alice Lloyd College Jenny Lea Academy of Cosmetology
    Appalachian Beauty School Kentucky Christian University
    Asbury Theological Seminary Kentucky Community and Technical College System
    Asbury University Kentucky Mountain Bible College
    Ashland Community and Technical College Kentucky State University
    Ashland Technical College Kentucky Wesleyan College
    Barrett and Company School of Hair Design Lexington Beauty College
    Beckfield College-Florence Lexington Community College
    Bellarmine University Lexington Theological Seminary
    Bellefonte Academy of Beauty Lindsey Wilson College
    Berea College Louisville Bible College
    Big Sandy Community and Technical College Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
    Big Sandy Community and Technical College-Mayo Campus Madisonville Community College
    Bluegrass Community and Technical College Maysville Community and Technical College
    Bowling Green Technical College Mid-Continent University
    Brescia University Midway College
    Brighton Center’s Center for Employment Training Morehead State University
    Brown Mackie College-Hopkinsville Motif Beauty Academy
    Brown Mackie College-Louisville Mr Jim’s College of Cosmetology
    Brown Mackie College-Northern Kentucky Murray State University
    Campbellsville University National College-Lexington
    Centre College Northern Kentucky University
    Clear Creek Baptist Bible College Nutek Academy of Beauty Inc
    Collins School of Cosmetology Owensboro Community and Technical College
    Daymar College-Bellevue Pat Wilsons Beauty College
    Daymar College-Bowling Green Paul Mitchell the School-Lexington
    Daymar College-Louisville Paul Mitchell the School-Louisville
    Daymar College-Owensboro Pikeville College
    Daymar College-Paducah Main PJ’s College of Cosmetology-Bowling Green
    Decker College Inc PJ’s College of Cosmetology-Glasgow
    Decker College-louisville Saint Catharine College
    E-Town Beauty School Somerset Community College
    Eastern Kentucky University Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College
    Elizabethtown Community and Technical College Southeast School of Cosmetology
    Elizabethtown Technical College Southwestern College
    Empire Beauty School-Chenoweth Spalding University
    Empire Beauty School-Dixie Spencerian College
    Empire Beauty School-Elizabethtown Spencerian College-Lexington
    Empire Beauty School-Florence Sullivan College of Technology and Design
    Empire Beauty School-Highland Sullivan University
    Empire Beauty School-Hurstborne The Salon Professional Academy-Lexington
    Employment Solutions-College for Technical Education The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
    Ezell’s Cosmetology School Thomas More College
    Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing Transylvania University
    Galen College of Nursing-Louisville Trend Setters Academy of Beauty Culture-Elizabethtown
    Gateway Community and Technical College Trend Setters Academy-Louisville
    Georgetown College Union College – Bennett Center
    Hazard Community and Technical College University of Kentucky
    Heads West Kentucky Beauty College University of Louisville
    Henderson Community College University of Phoenix-Louisville Campus
    Hopkinsville Community College University of the Cumberlands
    Interactive College of Technology-Newport West Kentucky Community and Technical College
    ITT Technical Institute-Louisville West Kentucky Technical College
    Jefferson Community and Technical College Western Kentucky University
    Jefferson Technical College

    Popular Tourist Attractions

    1. Maker’s Mark
    2. Churchill Downs
    3. Kentucky Kingdom
    4. Newport Aquarium
    5. Creation Museum
    6. Keeneland
    7. Louisville Zoo
    8. Red River Gorge
    9. Kentucky Horse Park
    10. Waverly Hills Sanatorium
    11. Lake Cumberland
    12. Land Between the Lakes
    13. Louisville Slugger Museum
    14. Mammoth Cave National Park
    15. Lost River Cave
    16. Beech Bend Park
    17. Buffalo Trace Distillery
    18. Muhammad Ali Center
    19. National Corvette Museum

    Famous Natives and Residents

    Name Profession
    John Adair pioneer and political leader;
    Muhammad Ali boxer;
    Alben W. Barkley vice president;
    Louis D. Brandeis jurist;
    John Mason Brown critic;
    Kit Carson scout;
    Champ Clark politician;
    George Clooney actor;
    Rosemary Clooney singer;
    Irvin S. Cobb humorist;
    Jefferson Davis president of the Confederacy;
    Johnny Depp actor;
    Irene Dunne actress;
    Crystal Gayle singer;
    David W. Griffith film producer;
    John M. Harlan jurist;
    Elizabeth Hardwick writer;
    Casey Jones locomotive engineer;
    Ashley Judd actress;;
    Barbara Kingsolver writer;
    Abraham Lincoln president;
    Loretta Lynn singer;
    Bill Monroe bluegrass musician;
    Carry A. Nation temperance leader;
    Patricia Neal actress;
    Diane Sawyer broadcast journalist;
    Adlai Stevenson vice president;
    Allen Tate poet and critic;
    Hunter Thompson writer;
    Frederick M. Vinson jurist;
    Robert Penn Warren novelist. novelist.

    Famous Actors And Actresses

    1. George Clooney
    2. Johnny Depp
    3. Jennifer Lawrence
    4. Patricia Neal

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