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Lake: 160,300 acres (649 km 2 ) Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park. Marshall County [ 3] 1,351 acres (5.5 km 2 ) Lake Barkley State Resort Park. Trigg County [ 3] Park: 3,600 acres (15 km 2) Lake: 57,920 acres (234 km 2 ) Lake Cumberland State Resort Park.
May 09, 1973. Columbus-Belmont State Park, on the shores of the Mississippi River in Hickman County, near Columbus, Kentucky, is the site of a Confederate fortification built during the American Civil War. The site was considered by both North and South to be strategically significant in gaining and keeping control of the Mississippi River.
Fort Campbell is a United States Army installation located astride the Kentucky – Tennessee border between Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Tennessee (post address is located in Kentucky). Fort Campbell is home to the 101st Airborne Division and the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. The fort is named in honor of Union Army ...
Website. Official website. Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park is a park located near Mount Olivet, Kentucky in Robertson and Nicholas counties. The park encompasses 148 acres (60 ha) and features a monument commemorating the August 19, 1782 Battle of Blue Licks. [2] The battle was regarded as the final battle of the American Revolutionary ...
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and developed using funds appropriated during the Johnson administration.
March 30, 2023 at 10:44 AM. The two HH60 Black Hawk Helicopters that crashed Wednesday night in Trigg County, causing nine deaths, belonged to a rare military unit that is based in Western ...
Website. Official website. General Burnside Island State Park is a park located just south of Somerset, Kentucky in Pulaski County. The park encompasses 430 acres (170 ha) in the middle of Lake Cumberland, making it Kentucky 's only island park. The park is named for General Ambrose E. Burnside, a Union general during the Civil War who ...
Clark County and Madison County: James Estill (1750–82), military captain killed at the Battle of Little Mountain: 13,936: 254 sq mi (658 km 2) Fayette County: 067: Lexington: 1780: Kentucky County: Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), French-born Revolutionary War general 320,154: 284 sq mi (736 km 2) Fleming County: 069 ...