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Kentucky Highlands Timeline - 1910
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The fourth-and current-Capitol is dedicated in Frankfort. |
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1911 |
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James B. McCreary of Madison County is chosen governor thirty-six years after he first was elected to that position. |
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1911 |
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Cora Wilson Stewart founds the first Moonlight School, to teach adults to read, in Rowan County. The idea spreads throughout the state. |
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McCreary county was established in 1912 and named after James B. McCreary (1838-1918), a lawyer, Confederate officer, Kentucky Senator, Kentucky Representative and Kentucky Governor. The county seat is Whitley City. |
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Books From Amazon.com about Kentucky |
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1913 |
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The General Assembly passes an anti-lynching law. |
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1913 |
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Pine Mountain Settlement School established. |
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1915 |
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Henderson native Augustus O. Stanley is elected governor. |
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1917 |
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U.S. Coal & Coke Company founds Lynch in Harlan County as a model coal town. |
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1917 |
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The United States enters World War . Nearly 100,000 Kentuckians will serve; 3,000 will lose their lives in the conflict. |
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1918 |
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Kentucky is the first "wet" state to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. |
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1918 |
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The General Assembly authorizes a state flag of navy blue silk. |
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McCreary and Pulaski County 1919. A meteor was observed over Tennessee and Kentucky on the night of April 9, 1919. The meteor produced a sound that was heard from Tennessee to Lexington, Ky. One fragment was discovered as Sawyer, near Cumberland Falls. It weighted 54 pounds. |
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1919 |
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Edwin P. Morrow, a Republican and nephew of former governor William O. Bradley, is elected governor. |
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McCreary and Pulaski County 1919. A meteor was observed over Tennessee and Kentucky on the night of April 9, 1919. The meteor produced a sound that was heard from Tennessee to Lexington, Ky. One fragment was discovered as Sawyer, near Cumberland Falls. It weighted 54 pounds. |
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