Kentucky

The Bluegrass State

The Bluegrass Country around Lexington is home to some of the world's finest racehorses and the Kentucky Derby, at Churchill Downs on May first, is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. 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.

Kentucky prides itself on producing some of the nation's best tobacco, horses, and whiskey. Corn, soybeans, wheat, fruit, hogs, cattle, and dairy products are among the agricultural items produced. Manufactured items produced in the state are motor vehicles, furniture, aluminum ware, brooms, apparel, lumber products, machinery, textiles, and iron and steel products. Kentucky also produces significant amounts of petroleum, natural gas, fluorspar, clay, and stone. It is also home to the highest per capita number of deer and turkey in the United States and the nation's most productive coal field. Kentucky is also known for thoroughbred and race horses, bourbon and distilleries, bluegrass music and collage basketball.The largest industry groups, based on their contribution to the total state gross product are: manufacturing; services; government; insurance and real estate; retail trade; transportation and public utilities; wholesale trade; construction; mining; farming and agricultural services, forestry, and fisheries.

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Quick Facts

Population: over 4 million
Size: 40,411 square miles
Per Capita Personal Income: $31,111 as of 2007
Capital: Frankfort

Professional Sports Teams

Kentucky has six minor-league professional and semi-professional sports teams.

Football (Mid Contentinal FL): Louisville Bulls

Basketball (ABA): Kentucky Colonels

Baseball (International League): Louisville Bats

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That Bluegrass is not really blue--it's green--but in the spring, bluegrass produces bluish-purple buds that when seen in large fields give a rich blue cast to the grass. Early pioneers found bluegrass growing on Kentucky's rich limestone soil, and traders began asking for the seed of the "blue grass from Kentucky." The name stuck and today Kentucky is known as the �Bluegrass State�.

That the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant owned and operated by Colonel Sanders is located in Corbin?

That the song "Happy Birthday to You" was the creation of two Louisville sisters in 1893.

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