Interesting Kentucky Fact of the Day

In Lexington, Kentucky, it’s illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.

“There is but one law for all, namely,
that law which governs all law,
the law of our Creator,
the law of humanity, justice, equity –
the law of nature, and of nations.”
Edmund Burke

Kentucky Law School

Interesting Kentucky Fact of the Day

Prototypes of both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge can be found in Northern Kentucky. The Robeling Suspension Bridge in Covington is the scale model of the Brooklyn Bridge; while in nearby Maysville, the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge, the model of the Golden Gate Bridge, was built across the Ohio River.

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
David Russell

Brooklyn Bridge

Interesting Kentucky Fact of the day

The first commercial oil well was on the Cumberland River in McCreary County Kentucky in 1819.

“Competition is a sin. ”
John D. Rockefeller

Standard Oil

Interesting Kentucky Fact of the day

Middlesboro, Kentucky is the only city in the U.S. built within a meteor crater

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as a blazing meteor when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882)

Pic of a Crater