"Kentucky" is also a common Caribbean nickname for Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC).
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Kentucky is known as the "Bluegrass State," a nickname based on the fact that bluegrass is present in many of the lawns and pastures throughout the state.
Kentucky was a battleground during the war; the Battle of Blue Licks, one of the last major battles of the Revolution, was fought in Kentucky.
Kentucky is subdivided into 120 counties, the largest being Pike County, Kentucky at 787.6 square miles, and the most populous being Jefferson County, Kentucky (the county containing the Louisville metropolitan area) with 693,604 residents as of 2000.
Kentucky is the principal hemp-growing state of the Union ; the crop of 1899, which was grown on 14,107 acres and amounted to 10,303,560 lb, valued at $468,454, was 87'7 % of the hemp crop of the whole country.
Kentucky is the S.W. extreme of the natural gas region of the west flank of the Appalachian system ; the greatest amount is found in Martincountyin the east, and Breckinridge county in the north-west.
Kentucky county, practically coterminous with the present state of Kentucky and embracing all the territory claimed by Virginia south of the Ohio river and west of Big Sandy Creek and the ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, was one of three counties which was formed out of Fincastle county in 1776.
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