Interesting facts about Kentucky than NOBODY knows... (Lexington, Louisville: business, art)

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Originally Posted by Off Topic

Great post, so I hate piling on. But actually those darn Texans are first with 254. (Of course, they needed three times as much land to do it!) Then Georgia with 159, Virginia with 134, then us. I agree that's way too many for us.

The state with the fewest counties? Delaware, with just three. (Might be two more than they really need.)

County (United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Kentucky has the 2nd smallest counties on average, behind Rhode Island

[K. Dunn]

Good stuff. Keep it coming!

[Davart]

Originally Posted by cartomanlex2

The Amtrak Cardinal is the same as the old C&O George Washington that runs from Chicago to Washington D.C. and has since the Forties. It runs 6 days a week(every other day in the opposite direction).

I guess I should have said the only daily Amtrak stop then, the one in Fulton runs every day (or should I say late night) going from Chicago to New Orleans. Which kinda of sucks if you spent the day and evening hitting the club in Memphis, as it doesn't leave Memphis until about midnight and gets to Fulton at about 2-3AM ... Try getting someone to pick you up at the station at 3 AM.

[cartomanlex]

Catch the train at 5:30 A.M. in Cincinnati on the way to Washington or at 8:30 A.M. in Ashland. Coming back, its 11: 15 P.M. in Ashland and 2:15 A.M. in Cincinnati, more or less(that is if the train is on time, usually not). Then there is the 2 hour drive to and from Lexington.

[blue62]

1. Frederick Vinson who was born in Louisa is the only Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court known to be born in jail.
2. 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.
3. In the War of 1812 more than half of all Americans killed in action were Kentuckians.
4. Middlesboro is the only city in the United States built within a meteor crater.
5. Joe Bowen holds the world record for stilt walking endurance. He walked 3,008 miles on stilts between Bowen, Kentucky to Los Angeles, California.

[Davart]

Originally Posted by cartomanlex

Catch the train at 5:30 A.M. in Cincinnati on the way to Washington or at 8:30 A.M. in Ashland. Coming back, its 11: 15 P.M. in Ashland and 2:15 A.M. in Cincinnati, more or less(that is if the train is on time, usually not). Then there is the 2 hour drive to and from Lexington.

Oh I've only got a few minutes drive to the station, actually you can leave your car/truck there at the station, it's only about $20 with discounts to Memphis and only takes about 2-3 hours depending on the other stops lengths.

More folks should take the train ... the country looks great from ground level off the interstate.

[cartomanlex]

I'll take the train any time

[KYcoyote]

Originally Posted by blue62

1. Frederick Vinson who was born in Louisa is the only Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court known to be born in jail.

Thats one of the best lesser know facts I've ever heard. Meanwhile the list of US Supremes either born in Kentucky or appointed from here is staggering:

Thomas Todd 1807-1826
Robert Trimble 1826-1828
Samuel Miller 1861-1890
John Harlan 1877-1911
Horace Lutton 1909-1914
James McReynolds 1914-1941
Louis Brandeis 1916-1939
Stanley Reed 1938-1957
Wiley Rultledge 1943-1949
Frederick Vinson 1946-1953

It's like until very recently there's always been at least one Kentuckian sitting at the US Supreme Court.

[kygman]

KyCoyote, you're wrong about where the nation's capital was going to be. This is from wikipedia under Columbus, Ky.

During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, a fire in Washington, D.C. prompted Jefferson to propose that the U.S. capital be moved to the more centrally-located city of Columbus. The proposal failed in the Senate by a single vote.[1]

Columbus, Kentucky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[kygman]

If you're big on the civil war, Columbus-Belmont Battlefield State Park is something to see. There is a huge chain and anchor near the picnic shelter that was used by the confederates. They stretched it across the Mississippi River to rip the bottom out of the Union supply boats. I remember going there as kids on family picnics and seeing who could climb to the top of the anchor quickest. Parts of the battlefield are set up in trails. There is a military cemetery for Camp Beauregard, near Water Valley, in Graves County.