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Kentucky
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
or An American State in the S. of the Ohio basin, with the Virginias on its E. and Tennessee on its S. border and the Mississippi River on the W.; is watered by the Licking and Kentucky Rivers that cross the State from the Cumberland Mountains in the SE. to the Ohio, and the Tennessee River traverses the western corner; the climate is mild and healthy; much of the soil is extremely fertile, giving hemp and the largest tobacco crops in the Union; there are dense forests of virgin ash, walnut, and oak over two-thirds of the State, and on its pasturage the finest stock and horses are bred; coal is found in both the E. and the W., and iron is plentiful; the chief industries are whisky distilling, iron smelting and working; admitted to the Union in 1792, Kentucky was a slave-holding State, but did not secede in the Civil War; the capital is Frankfort, the largest city Louisville; the State University is at Lexington.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Kentucky'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/k/kentucky.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
