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Two hundred years after it was wrested from
the Native Americans, KENTUCKY still hasn't quite made up its mind as to
whether it belongs in the North or the South. Both the rival presidents in
the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, were born here, and
divisions were acute between slave-owning farmers and the merchants who
depended on trade with the nearby cities of the industrial North.
Officially neutral, seventy thousand Kentuckians joined the Union army and
forty thousand the Confederates. After the war Kentucky sided with the
South in its hostility to Reconstruction, and since then it has remained
solidly Democrat.
Kentucky's rugged beauty is at its most appealing in the mountainous east
and the small historic towns of the Bluegrass Downs, with visits
enlivened by the varied attractions of bourbon whiskey, thoroughbred
horses and bluegrass music.
Louisville, home of the Kentucky Derby, is a
busy manufacturing and arts center; the more reserved
Lexington, eighty
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Kentucky Attractions |
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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace,
Hodgenville |
Kentucky Highlands Museum,
Ashland |
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American Quilters Museum,
Paducah |
Kentucky History Museum,
Frankfort |
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American Saddlebred Museum,
Lexington |
Kentucky Opry,
Draffenville |
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Aviation Museum of Kentucky,
Lexington |
Kentucky Speedway,
Ft. Mitchell |
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Carter Caves State Resort Park |
Lexington Children's Museum |
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Civil War Fort Hill Museum,
Frankfort |
Lorretta Lynn's Homeplace,
Van Lear |
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Churchill Downs
Race Track, Louisville |
Louisville Science Center |
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Corvette National Museum,
Bowling Green |
Louisville Slugger Museum,
Louisville |
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Daniel Boone Grave,
Frankfort |
Louisville Zoo,
Louisville |
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Daniel Boone National Park,
Winchester |
Levi Jackson State Park,
London |
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Daniel Boone Pioneer Festival,
Winchester |
Mary Todd Lincoln House,
Lexington |
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Floyd Collins Museum,
Cave City |
Mammoth Cave National Park |
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Fort Boonesboro State Park,
Richmond |
Mammoth Cave Wax Museum |
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Fort Harrod State Park,
Harrodsburg |
Mammoth Cave Wildlife Museum |
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Fort Knox
Bullion Depository |
Newport Aquarium,
Newport |
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Headley Whitney Museum,
Lexington |
Onyx Cave,
Cave City |
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Henry Clay Museum,
Lexington |
Oscar Gertz Museum,
Bardstown |
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Hummel Planetarium,
Richmond |
Owensboro Area Museum Of Science |
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Jenny Wiley Grave,
River |
Patton Army Museum |
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Keenland Race Track |
Schmidt Museum of
Coca-Cola Memorabilia |
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Kentucky Center for the Arts,
Louisville |
Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom,
Lexington |
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Kentucky Derby
Museum, Louisville |
Speed Art Museum,
Louisville |
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Kentucky Down Under, Horse
Cave |
University of Kentucky Art Museum |
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Kentucky Fried Chicken Museum |
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