The Feud

The Feud

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December 19th 2015

Published: June 25th 2017

Geo: 37.4793, -82.5188Having stopped in to visit the home of the Kentucky Derby, we had to have a look at the nearby "Horse Capital of the World", Lexington, KY- it is the heart of the state's Bluegrass region (Bluegrass is not really blue--its green--but in the spring bluegrass produces bluish purple buds that when seen in large fields give a blue cast to the grass). DH's strugg... Read Full Entry

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Grave Of Cigar

Cigar retired as the leading money earner in Thoroughbred racing history and was later inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

Police Horse Barn

DH Has Me Test The Water

Police Horse Doesn't Bite

DH Tells Police Horse Tales Of Her Undercover Work

Kentucky Horse Park- Man o'War Grave

Man o' War,is considered one of the greatest Thoroughbred race horses of all time

Kentucky Horse Park- Issac Burns Murphy Grave

Buried next to Man o'War is the greatest jockey of all time- Issac Burns Murphy. According to his own calculations Murphy won 628 of his 1,412 starts—a 44% victory rate which has never been equaled

Kentucky Horse Park- Man o'War

Man o' War died in 1947, and is buried beneath a larger-than-life bronze statue of himself at Kentucky Horse Park, surrounded by the graves of several of his 379 children.

Big Chairs & Duck For No Good Reason

Lexington Fire Station Built Into A Hill

Vic S- Does this mean that firefighters are cavemen?

Pikeville Has A University?

With regard to the sale of alcohol, it is classified as a moist county—a county in which alcohol sales are prohibited (a dry county), but containing a "wet" city, in this case two cities: Pikeville and Coal Run Village. We ran into this a lot.

Pro Coal Mining Statues In Town

Big Sandy Heritage Museum

Cock fighting was a big sport- note the spurs on the roosters feet.

Big Sandy Heritage Museum

Trapped coal miner writing his last letter to family.

Big Sandy Heritage Museum

Miners used caged canaries in the coal mines as safety equipment.

Big Sandy Heritage Museum

Reward for local army deserter.

Big Sandy Heritage Museum

A Sheriff named "Fuzzy"!! You can't make this stuff up.

Hatfields & McCoys

The Hatfield–McCoy feud (1863–1891) involved two families of the West Virginia–Kentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River.

Dils Cemetary

The Dils Cemetery in Pikefield has been unofficially relabeled the "Hatfield-McCoy Feud Cemetery" because it touts the graves of both Hatfields and McCoys.

McCoy Graves

McCoys

The most famous interment is Randolph McCoy. Also here is Rosanna, Randolph's daughter, who died of a broken heart after her forbidden Hatfield lover abandoned her and her love-baby (who is buried elsewhere).

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