Directly south of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, this suburban city in the Cincinnati metro area is crossed by I-75 and I-71. Since the mid-1970s millions of people traveling along the highway have been greeted by a water tower proudly painted with the friendly message, “Florence Y’All”. The story behind this landmark is a bit like …
Close to Lexington, Nicholasville is an ever-growing city on the south side of Kentucky’s dreamy Bluegrass Region. The city is enveloped in bucolic countryside known for horse-rearing, and horses can be your theme in Nicholasville. Going behind the scenes, you could hop from horse farms to stables to training facilities to a rehabilitation center. Nicholasville …
The seat of Hardin County is a diverse and growing city, home to more than 30,000 people at the last count. Elizabethtown has a lot of history, and was the site of a Civil War battle in 1862, lasting evidence of which survives as a cannonball embedded in a wall downtown. Earlier, Abraham Lincoln’s parents, …
Kentucky’s third most-populous city can be found in South Central Kentucky, and has long been known as a center for manufacturing. Since 1981 all Corvettes have been assembled in Bowling Green. America’s Favorite Sports Car still has the power to send tingles down your spine, and you could easily base your entire trip to Bowling …
Tucked into a bend on the Ohio River in Western Kentucky, Owensboro is a culturally-rich city with a lively downtown and a newly redeveloped riverfront. In Owensboro you’ll get acquainted with some regional classics, all starting with the letter “B”. First off, you’re in “The Barbecue Capital of the World”, and you can indulge in …
Across the Ohio River from Cincinnati, Covington is Kentucky’s fifth most populous city, home to more than 40,000. Covington has a character all of its own, as you’ll see at the impossibly quaint MainStrasse Village, with its little alleys and painted low-rise brick buildings going back to the mid-19th century. The Ohio River is also …
This city of just over 30,000 is ensconced in rich farmland near the border with Tennessee in southwestern Kentucky. A big part of local life is the US Army base Fort Campbell, founded in 1941 and home to the 101st Airborne Division. Once you get a pass, you can visit the Don F. Pratt Museum …
This historic college town in Central Kentucky sits in rambling green countryside strewn with farms, wineries and places of immense historical importance. One is the site of Fort Boonesborough, founded by the famed frontiersman Daniel Boone after he and his men crossed the Kentucky River in 1775. The Battle of Richmond, a Confederate victory, was …
The seat of the eponymous county, Henderson is an historic city on a sweeping bend of the Ohio River, looking across to Indiana. In the 1810s when Henderson was a frontier town, the ornithologist and painter John James Audubon (1785-1851) resided here, at a transitional period in his life that inspired him to work at …
In south-central Kansas, El Dorado has a history reaching back to the 1860s, but the modern story of the city begins in 1915 when oil was discovered here. Within three years this oilfield was the single largest oil producer in the country, responsible for almost 13% of the United States’ total production. With those days …