Format: Paperback
Pages: 108
ISBN: 9780813192833
Pub Date: 04 Nov 2009
Imprint: University Press of Kentucky
Series: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
Illustrations: 4 maps
Description:
In the nineteenth century, Kentucky was one of the nation's leading producers of racehorses, whiskey, tobacco -- and new counties. By 1886 the three original Kentucky counties had been carved into 119 (belated 120th was to be formed in 1912). These small divisions commanded the fierce loyalty of their citizens and for most Kentuckians formed the center of political and community life.