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3 unusual facts about Pikeville


Pikeville, Kentucky

The Expo Center will be home to the East Kentucky Energy of the American Basketball Association starting in fall 2010, and starting in spring 2011 it became home to the Kentucky Drillers of the Continental Indoor Football League.

The college is one of the smallest in the nation to have an osteopathic medicine program as part of its curriculum.

U.S. Route 121

The limited-access highway in Pike County would begin at U.S. Route 23 south of Pikeville and proceed northeast and north of Fishtrap Lake to Kimper.


Berniece T. Hiser

Hiser compiled Quare Do's in Appalachia: East Kentucky Legends and Memorats (Pikeville, Kentucky: Pikeville College Press, 1978), a collection of folktales, ghost stories, and tales she collected, many of which involve members of her family.

Pikeville Cut-Through

By 1965, his plan had further developed to accommodate Corridor B of the Appalachian Development Highway System, assuring the construction of the Pikeville Cut-Through.


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