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To: Olog-hai

Wasn’t Kentucky called Franklin before becoming a state?


109 posted on 05/05/2025 3:05:23 AM PDT by Hootowl
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To: Hootowl

That was the extreme eastern part of Tennessee, and unofficially so; aka “Frankland”.

Kentucky started as the western part of the Virginia colony. It was named for the Kentucky River.


116 posted on 05/05/2025 4:57:39 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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