The State Capital Capitol Building Frankfort Kentucky
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About Kentucky
Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is one of the 50 US states located in the east south-central region along the west side of the Appalachian Mountains, an area known as the Upland South.
Kentucky borders Virginia to the southeast, and Tennessee to the south. The Ohio River forms a natural border with Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. The Big Sandy and the Tug Fork Rivers define the state line with West Virginia in the east; the Mississippi River creates the border to Missouri in the southwest.
For at least 5,000 years, the region was inhabited by Native American people. About 4,000 years ago, these natives shifted from a hunter-gatherer society to an agricultural-based economy by cultivating numerous species of wild plants. Native groups known to have lived in Kentucky were Cherokee, Chickasaw, Delaware (Lenape), and Shawnee.
The region was explored by Daniel Boone, a frontiersman and one of the first folk heroes of the United States. European settlement began in the mid 18th century. First settlements west of the Appalachian Mountains were founded by settlers migrating primarily from Virginia, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
The region of what is today Kentucky (then part of Virginia), was ceded by the French to the British in 1763 and then to the US in 1783 by the Treaty of Paris (which ended the American Revolution).
Kentucky was admitted to the Union together with Vermont to the existing 13 states on 1st June 1792 as the 15th state.
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