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Kentucky Highlands Timeline - 1920
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1920 |
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Over 42 million tons of coal produced in Kentucky. |
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1920 |
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Kentucky becomes one of four southern states to ratify the 19th Amendment, giving women the vote. |
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1921 |
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Mary Elliott Flanery of Boyd County is the first woman to be elected to a state legislature south of the Mason-Dixon line. |
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1924 |
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Ashland Refining Company is formed and Paul Blazer hired as its president. |
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1924 |
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Pine Mountain State Park is the first state park created. |
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1924 |
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The General Assembly creates the State Park Commission, which recommends seven sites. |
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1925 |
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Mary Breckinridge founds the Frontier Nursing Service at Hyden in Leslie County. |
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1926 |
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Kentucky adopts the goldenrod as its state flower and the cardinal as its bird. |
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1928 |
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Stephen Foster's "My Old Kentucky Home" is adopted as the state song. |
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1928 |
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The legislature mandates free textbooks for elementary students. |
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