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15 unusual facts about Frankfort, Kentucky


Alexander Keith Marshall

Marshall was a member of the Kentucky constitutional convention held in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1849.

Brass Hat

Bred and raced by Fred F. Bradley of Frankfort, Kentucky, Brass Hat is trained by his son William "Buff" Bradley.

Cornell Burbage

He was named the 27th head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for the 2004 season.

George E. Edwards

George E. Edwards was the 11th head college football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for six seasons, from 1951 until 1956.

George James, Jr.

for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky

Judi Patton

In December 1995, Judi and her husband Paul Patton (59th Governor of Kentucky) entered the Governor’s Office in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Kendall County, Illinois

Kendall was the editor of the Frankfort, Kentucky newspaper, and went on to be an important advisor to President Andrew Jackson.

Kentucky Colonels

In preseason play, on September 23, 1972, the Colonels hosted the NBA's Atlanta Hawks for an exhibition game in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Larry Kirksey

Kirksey was the 18th head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for the 1983 season.

LeRoy Smith

After his success at Tuskegee, Smith was the 16th head coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for twelve seasons, from 1970 until 1981.

Maurice Hunt

Hunt was the 24th head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for three seasons, from 1992 until 1994.

Mel Whedbee

Melville F. Whedbee was the 14th head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for five seasons, from 1963 until 1967.

Norman Passmore

was the seventh head college football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for the 1944 season.

Return J. Meigs, Jr.

The first of these - called Return J. Meigs III - passed the bar in Frankfort, Kentucky, commenced law practice in Athens, Tennessee, and became prominent in Tennessee state affairs before the Civil War.

William K. Head

William K. Head (born November 15, 1947) was the 22nd head football coach for the Kentucky State University Thorobreds located in Frankfort, Kentucky and he held that position for three seasons, from 1987 until 1989.


Air Kentucky

The airline was mentioned in the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; one of the main characters, Ned Plimpton, is a pilot for Air Kentucky.

Alice Lloyd

Alice Lloyd College, a liberal arts college in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, a small Appalachian community

Andrew Stahl

He currently lives on his family farm in Butler County, Kentucky and works out of Atlanta, Georgia and Nashville, Tennessee.

Angel Cordero, Jr.

The Kentucky Derby is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky and is considered by many as the most important race in American thoroughbred racing.

Anna Mac Clarke

While at Kentucky State, Clarke was a very active student, participating in sports, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and the school's newspaper, The Kentucky Thorobred.

Appalachian Stakes

First held in 1989, the Appalachian Stakes was named for the Appalachian Mountains which extend into Eastern Kentucky.

Battle of Camp Wildcat

Brig. Gen. Felix Zollicoffer's Confederates moved from Tennessee in an effort to push from Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky and gain control of the important border state.

Belle Meade Plantation

The bloodlines of Belle Meade Plantation, primarily due to the success of "Bonnie Scotland, a Belle Meade foundation stud, include famous descendants such as Secretariat, Funny Cide, Seabiscuit, Giacamo, Mine That Bird, Smarty Jones, and Barbaro, Since the 1990s, every horse that has run the Kentucky Derby is a blood descendent of Belle Meade Plantation foundations.

Carl Perkins Bridge

It is named after the late Carl D. Perkins, Congressman from the 7th District of Kentucky.

Cumberland Presbytery

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, by Matthew H. Gore, Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries.

Dinsmore House

Dinsmore Homestead, Burlington, Kentucky, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Dinsmore House and as James Dinsmore House, in Boone County, Kentucky

Don Phelps

Phelps was suspended for most of the 1948 season for breaking team rules, but he returned in 1949, when Kentucky played in the Orange Bowl.

Edward H. Hobson

He was married to Katie Adair, a niece of Kentucky Governor John Adair.

Elna

Elna, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, USA

Food City

K-VA-T Food City, a U.S. supermarket chain with stores located in Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Georgetown Tigers

The Georgetown College Tigers are the sports teams of Georgetown College located in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Gino Guidugli

Guidugli played at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky.

Gunther Behnke

He was recruited by head coach Joe B. Hall to play for the University of Kentucky but became homesick and never appeared in a game for Kentucky.

Heath High School

Heath High School (Kentucky) in West Paducah, Kentucky, a now-closed school also known as the site of a notable shooting in 1997 in which three students were killed and five wounded

J. Edward Anderson

The Sky Loop plan was submitted to the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), but the proposal was ultimately rejected by OKI's Central Area Loop Study Committee.

J. Madison Wright Morris

Once graduating from university in summer 2006, Madison planned to begin a job teaching English to tenth grade children at George Rogers Clark High School, located in Winchester, Kentucky.

Jamal Mashburn

He owns 34 Outback Steakhouse franchises, 37 Papa John's franchises, and a number of car dealerships across the state of Kentucky.

James Harrod

A contemporary of better known explorers like Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Benjamin Logan, and Simon Kenton, Harrod led many expeditions into the regions that now form Kentucky and Illinois.

John Minton

John D. Minton, Jr. (born 1952), Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court

Kenny Rogers Roasters

It was founded in 1991 by country musician Kenny Rogers and John Y. Brown, Jr., who was former governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

Kentucky Route 61

Kentucky Route 61 (KY 61) is a 148.006 mile (238.193 km) long Kentucky State Highway extending north from the Tennessee state line in Cumberland County to Columbia in Adair County through to Greensburg in Green County.

Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers

The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers are the athletic teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College, which compete in the NCAA Division II and the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.

Knob Lick

Knob Lick, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Metcalfe County, Kentucky

Levi Todd

Two of his daughters married politicians, Jane Briggs marrying congressman Daniel Breck and Elizabeth Todd marrying Charles Carr, the son of Kentucky statesman Walter Carr.

Louisville and Nashville Railroad

The L&N Railroad is also the subject of at least two songs, the 2003 Rhonda Vincent bluegrass song "Kentucky Borderline", and "The L&N Don't Stop Here Anymore" by Jean Ritchie and performed by Michelle Shocked.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Ole Miss Rebels

The younger Insell had spent the previous five seasons as an assistant under Matthew Mitchell at Kentucky.

Overmountain Men

Other influential Overmountain Men included John Crockett (father of Davy Crockett), William Lenoir, Joseph Dickson, Daniel Smith, William Russell, and John Rhea, all of whom were at Kings Mountain, and Anthony Bledsoe, who commanded the homeguard for the Holston settlement while the main force was away.

Prestonia, Louisville

Prestonia is a neighborhood five miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Its boundaries are Preston Highway, Interstate 65, Interstate 264 and the Norfolk Southern Railway tracks.

Rank Strangers

The Rank Strangers were also headliners at the Station Inn in Nashville, and the Louisville, Kentucky, music festival, supporting guitar legend Tony Rice's bluegrass band.

Scott May

With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92-90 in the Mideast Regional.

Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr.

In 2004 Bowling sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections along with fellow inmate Ralph Baze on the grounds that execution by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Waterfront Development Corporation

An agreement to provide equal funding between the governments of Louisville, Jefferson County, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky led to the creation of the Waterfront Development Corporation.

WBLN

WQQR, a radio station (94.7 FM) licensed to Clinton, Kentucky, United States, which used the call sign WBLN from March 1997 to March 1998

WDFB

WDFB-FM, a radio station at 88.1 FM licensed to Danville, Kentucky

Wesley Phelps

He was educated in the Ohio County, Kentucky, elementary schools and graduated from Horse Branch High School in 1942.

Wildcat Mountain

Battle of Camp Wildcat (Battle of Wildcat Mountain), an American Civil War battle in Laurel County, Kentucky

William Candidus

Subsequently he studied under Rouchetti (Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti?), of Milan, and in 1880 became a member of the opera at Frankfort am Main, where he remained until the autumn of 1885, when he joined the American Opera Company.

William Thorne

William P. Thorne (1845–1928) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1903–1907)

Williamson, West Virginia

South Williamson is an unincorporated area of Pike County and is associated with the adjacent Kentucky neighborhoods of Goody and Belfry.

WKDZ

WKDZ-FM, a radio station (106.5 FM) located in Cadiz, Kentucky, United States

WMKJ

WWRW, a radio station (105.5 FM) licensed to serve Mount Sterling, Kentucky, United States, which held the call sign WMKJ from 2000 to 2010