World Chicken Festival
The festival is the biggest festival in Kentucky because the entertainment in the 4 fun-filled days. The festival started in the year 1989. The festival is in London, Kentucky.
Coal Mining in Kentucky
In the earliest days miners dug in darkness and had to crouch down in the tiniest holes in the cave, and sometimes they got all full of muddy water. Cave-ins, explosions, and poisonous fumes killed many miners, black lung disease (caused by breathing in coal dust) killed even more miners. In 1970 38 miners got killed by a mine explosion.
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Native American groups
The country was used as a common hunting grounds for the Shawnees from the north and the Cherokee from the south. The Iroquois claimed their possession until 1768. Although there were native Americans in Kentucky in prehistoric times, when settlers and explorers began Kentucky in the mid-1700s, there were no permanent Kentucky Indian tribes or native American settlements in the region.