Showing posts with label UNITED STATES (Kentucky). Show all posts
Showing posts with label UNITED STATES (Kentucky). Show all posts

October 28, 2015

1992 UNITED STATES (Kentucky) - Kentucky map


Bordered by West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, Kentucky is situated in the Upland South. Its northern border is formed by the Ohio River and its western border by the Mississippi River. Originally a part of Virginia, in 1792 Kentucky became the 15th state to join the Union. It is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on the bluegrass found in many of its pastures due to fertile soil. One of the major regions in Kentucky is the Bluegrass region in central Kentucky which houses two of its major cities, Louisville and Lexington, and also the capital city, Frankfort.

January 15, 2014

0968 UNITED STATES (Kentucky) - Fort Knox


Fort Knox is a U.S. Army post which occupy an area of ​441 km.sq and currently holds the Army human resources Center of Excellence, being also one of only three Army posts (along with Fort Campbell, Kentucky and Fort Sam Houston, Texas) that still have a high school located on-post. It was the home, for nearly seventy years (1940-2010), of the U.S. Army Armor Center, and the U.S. Army Armor School (now at Fort Benning), being used by both the Army and the Marine Corps to train crews on the M1 Abrams main battle tank. Fortifications were erected near the site in 1861 (Fort Duffield), but the construction for a permanent training center was started only in July 1918, the new camp being named after Henry Knox, the Continental Army's chief of artillery during the Revolutionary War and the country's first Secretary of War. Here is also the General George Patton Museum.