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The route originates at a junction with U.S. Route 127 in the southern Russell County community of Freedom.The route continues into Adair County through Columbia.In the 2010s, KY 55 was rerouted onto the Columbia Bypass, while the original KY 55 alignment, which went through town and provided Cumberland Parkway access, was re-designated as KY 55 Business.
Woodford County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,871. [1] Its county seat is Versailles. [2] The area was home to Pisgah Academy. Woodford County is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is located in the center of the Bluegrass region of Kentucky.
In 1820, Charles Henry Hardin was born to Charles and Hannah Jewell Hardin in Trimble County, Kentucky. [1] [2] Also in 1820, his family moved to Missouri and eventually settled in Columbia, Missouri. [3] [4] Following his father's death in 1830, Hardin worked in the family's tannery business. [5]
Slave cabins in the Bluegrass (Coleman Collection, published by William H. Townsend, 1955) Mason County, Kentucky, slave pen now at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War.
Interstate 71 (I-71) is a north–south Interstate Highway in the midwestern and southeastern regions of the United States. Its southern terminus is at an interchange with I-64 and I-65 (the Kennedy Interchange) in Louisville, Kentucky, and its northern terminus at an interchange with I-90 in Cleveland, Ohio.
In Kentucky, Trimble County Emergency Management Director Andrew Stark told the Courier Journal of Louisville that the storms damaged at least 50 structures, including homes.
Fayette County—originally Fayette County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, when it abolished and subdivided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln. Together, these counties and those set off from them later in that decade separated from Virginia in 1792 to become the ...
This two lane vehicular bridge is the Ohio River crossing for U.S. Route 421.The bridge has a main span of 600 feet (180 m) and total length of 3,184.2 feet (970.5 m). The original bridge had a deck width of a mere 20 feet (6.1 m), and above the deck the vertical clearance was 16.8 feet (5.1