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2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Kentucky

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   Retrieved February 13, 2009. ^ The following sites are listed in multiple counties: Battle of Mill Springs Historic Areas (Pulaski and Wayne), Boone Creek Rural Historic District (Clark and Fayette), Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (Bell and Harlan), East Main Street Bridge (Knox and Whitley), Falls of Rough Historic District ...

3. McCreary County, Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   McCreary County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,888. [1] Its county seat is Whitley City. [2] The county is named for James B. McCreary, a Confederate war soldier and two-time Governor of Kentucky (1875–1879, 1911–1915).

4. Cumberland County, Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Cumberland County is a county located in the Pennyroyal Plateau region of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,888. [1] Its county seat is Burkesville. [2] The county was formed in 1798 and named for the Cumberland River, which in turn may have been named after the Duke of Cumberland [3] or the English county ...

5. Black land loss in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In 2002, a USDA Report showed that black people owned less than 1% of the rural land in the United States and the total value of all of that land together is only 14 billion dollars, out of a total land value of more than 1.2 trillion dollars, while the total land that white people owned 96% of rural land, bringing their land's joint worth to ...

6. Public Land Survey System - Wikipedia

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   The Public Land Survey System ( PLSS) is the surveying method developed and used in the United States to plat, or divide, real property for sale and settling. Also known as the Rectangular Survey System, it was created by the Land Ordinance of 1785 to survey land ceded to the United States by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, following the end of ...

7. Breathitt County, Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Breathitt County ( / ˈbrɛˌθɪt / BREH-thit) is a county in the eastern Appalachian portion of the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,718. [1] Its county seat is Jackson. [2] The county was formed in 1839 and was named for John Breathitt, who was Governor of Kentucky from 1832 to 1834.