The Story of Kentucky In 100 Landmarks

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>America turns 250. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Let's go find the candles.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Looking for a history lesson that doesn't feel like homework? You've found it. At 250history.com the Semiquincentennial Series brings each state's distinctive landmarks to center stage to tell their fast and fun story. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We've wandered through big cities tiny towns muddy trails and neon-lit highways-uncovering 5000 historic gems along the way.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Semiquincentennial isn't just a mouthful-it's a reminder that history is alive sometimes weird and always waiting to be rediscovered. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whether you're traveling by road by printed page or by imagination; whether you are a lifelong native or visiting for a week we invite you to explore 100 Kentucky landmarks that illuminate the one-of-a-kind story of the Bluegrass State. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Log cabins...Kentucky Cave Wars... 11 herbs and spices... iron hors-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>es... kissing bridges... bourbon... iron smelting furnaces... fire tow-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ers... the CCC... bluegrass music... landmark bridges... black tobacco</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>barns... the golden age of motoring... Louisville Sluggers... the Great</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Compromiser... the Castle on the Cumberland... basketball... Grant</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and Thomas Zollicoffer and Bragg... Chautauqua... Hot browns...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Rosenwald schools... soft coal... Frank Lloyd Wright... Shakers...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Meskers... land-grant schools... thoroughbreds... fishing reels... This</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>book will have you telling stories like a native in no time.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The photos and stories collected here are a fast and fun way to learn</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the explanations behind the quirks the traditions and the secrets that</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>make Kentucky uniquely Kentucky. How did Kentucky become the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>home of America's Sport Car? Solved. What historic government</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>building did Old Stone Hammer help build and then move into three</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>decades later? A mystery no more. What is the nation's only interstate</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>highway rest stop in an historic home? Identified. Where was the first</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>victory for the Union Army in the Civil War? Revealed. Did Stephen</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Foster ever visit My Old Kentucky Home? No one knows.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It is a story only Kentucky can call its own. A story told in 100 landmarks. Almost all the selections within are open to the public or at least visible from public spaces. So fire up the GPS and see the story of the Bluegrass State standing in plain sight on Kentucky streets!</span></p><p></p>