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Mayfield, Kentucky

Index Mayfield, Kentucky

Mayfield is a home rule-class city in Graves County, Kentucky, in the United States. [1]

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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America's Got Talent

America's Got Talent (often abbreviated as AGT) is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global Got Talent franchise.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Amish

The Amish (Pennsylvania German: Amisch, Amische) are a group of traditionalist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German Anabaptist origins.

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Andrew Boone

Andrew Rechmond Boone (April 4, 1831 – January 26, 1886) was a United States Representative from Kentucky.

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Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) was an American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.

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Area codes 270 and 364

Area code 270 serves the Commonwealth of Kentucky's western and south central counties.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.

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Beriah Magoffin

Beriah Magoffin (April 18, 1815 – February 28, 1885) was the 21st Governor of Kentucky, serving during the early part of the Civil War.

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Betsy Cook

Betsy Cook is an American-born singer, songwriter and musician.

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Black Patch Tobacco Wars

The Black Patch Tobacco Wars were a period of civil unrest and violence in the western counties of the U.S. states of Kentucky and Tennessee at the turn of the 20th century, circa 1904-1909.

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Bobbie Ann Mason

Bobbie Ann Mason (born May 1, 1940) is a Southern United States novelist, short story writer, essayist, and literary critic from Kentucky.

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BWX Technologies

BWX Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Lynchburg, Virginia is an American technology i.e. power generation company.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Chickasaw

The Chickasaw are an indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands.

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Chuck Taylor (wrestler)

Dustin Lee Howard (born April 22, 1986) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chuck Taylor. Howard began his wrestling training at age 15 under the tutelage of Brandon Walker at the Old School Wrestling Training Academy in Hardin, Kentucky.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Clergy

Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.

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Confederate government of Kentucky

The Confederate government of Kentucky was a shadow government established for the Commonwealth of Kentucky by a self-constituted group of Confederate sympathizers during the American Civil War.

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Cornbread Red

Billy Joe "Cornbread Red" Burge (December 17, 1931 – February 13, 2004), was an American pool player.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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David Boaz

David Boaz (born August 29, 1953, Mayfield, Kentucky) is the executive vice president of the Cato Institute, an American libertarian think tank.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era

Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era in the United States of America was based on a series of laws, new constitutions, and practices in the South that were deliberately used to prevent black citizens from registering to vote and voting.

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Dry county

A dry county is a county in the United States whose government forbids the sale of any kind of alcoholic beverages.

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Ellis Wilson

Ellis Wilson (20 April 1899 – January 1977) was an African-American artist.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Fulton, Kentucky

Fulton is a home rule-class city in Fulton County, Kentucky, United States.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Governor of Kentucky

The Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky is the head of the executive branch of government in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Graves County, Kentucky

Graves County is a county located on the southwest border of the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Helen LaFrance

Helen LaFrance (born November 4, 1919) is a self-taught African-American artist born in Graves County, Kentucky, the second of four daughters to James Franklin Orr and Lillie May Ligon Orr.

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Henry Cornelius Burnett

Henry Cornelius Burnett (October 25, 1825 – October 1, 1866) was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Kentucky from 1862 to 1865.

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Hickman, Kentucky

Hickman is a city in and the county seat of Fulton County, Kentucky, United States.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Interstate 24

Interstate 24 (I-24) is an Interstate Highway in the Midwestern and Southeastern United States.

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Isaac Shelby

Isaac Shelby (December 11, 1750 – July 18, 1826) was the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and served in the state legislatures of Virginia and North Carolina.

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Jackson Purchase

The Jackson Purchase, also known as the Purchase Region or simply the Purchase, is a region in the U.S. state of Kentucky bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio River to the north, and Tennessee River to the east.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kent Robbins

Kent Marshall Robbins (April 23, 1947 – December 27, 1997) was an American country music songwriter.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Kentucky Dam

Kentucky Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River on the county line between Livingston and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Kentucky High School Athletic Association

The Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) has been the governing body of the U.S. state of Kentucky high-school athletics since 1917.

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Kentucky Route 80

Kentucky Route 80 (KY 80) is a state highway in the southern part of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Kentucky's 1st congressional district

Kentucky's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League

The Kentucky–Illinois–Tennessee League (or KITTY League) was a Class D minor league baseball circuit that went through six different lives.

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Kevin Skinner

Patrick Kevin Skinner (born February 25, 1974) is an American country music singer from the Jackson Purchase region of Kentucky.

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LaVerne Butler

LaVerne L. Butler (January 28, 1926 – December 16, 2010) was a prominent Southern Baptist pastor and college president in Kentucky who was a leader in the "Conservative Resurgence" in his denomination during the 1970s and 1980s.

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List of cities in Kentucky

Kentucky is a state located in the Southern United States.

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List of counties in Kentucky

This is a list of the one hundred and twenty counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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List of Governors of Montana

The Governor of Montana is the head of the executive branch of Montana's state governmentMontana Constitution, Article VI, Section 4.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Lon Carter Barton

Lon Carter Barton (1925–2006) was an American politician and historian.

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Lucien Anderson

Lucien Anderson (June 23, 1824 – October 18, 1898) was a United States Representative from Kentucky.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Mayfield Clothiers

The Mayfield Clothiers were a minor league baseball team that operated from 1936–1955, with a break from 1942–1945 when the league was shut down during World War II.

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Mayfield Ten

The Mayfield Ten, are ten African-American students in Graves County, Kentucky, who chose to integrate the white high school in Mayfield, Kentucky, in 1956.

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Murray, Kentucky

Murray is a home rule-class city in Calloway County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Noble Jones Gregory

Noble Jones Gregory (August 30, 1897 – September 26, 1971) was a Democrat, who represented Kentucky for eleven terms in the United States House of Representatives, from 1937 to 1959.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of McCracken County, Kentucky, United States.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Purchase Parkway

The Julian M. Carroll Purchase Parkway is a controlled-access highway in the US state of Kentucky running from Fulton to Calvert City, near Kentucky Dam, for a length of.

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Randy Galloway

George Randolph "Randy" Galloway (born January 19, 1943) is a sports columnist for the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram and a graduate of Sam Houston State University.

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Rex Geveden

Rex Geveden is the president and chief executive officer of BWX Technologies.

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Robert Burns Smith

Robert B. Smith (December 29, 1854 – November 16, 1908) was a Democratic politician.

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Russellville, Kentucky

Russellville is a home rule-class city in Logan County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Secession

Secession (derived from the Latin term secessio) is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Southern Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States.

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Tennessee

Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Tobacco

Tobacco is a product prepared from the leaves of the tobacco plant by curing them.

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U.S. Route 45

U.S. Route 45 is a major north–south United States highway and a border-to-border route, from Lake Superior to the Gulf of Mexico.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States Geological Survey

The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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West Tennessee

West Tennessee is one of the three Grand Divisions of the state of Tennessee.

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White Americans

White Americans are Americans who are descendants from any of the white racial groups of Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, or in census statistics, those who self-report as white based on having majority-white ancestry.

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William Voris Gregory

William Voris Gregory (October 21, 1877 – October 10, 1936) was an attorney and politician, serving as a United States Representative from Kentucky from 1927 to his death in office.

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Wooldridge Monuments

The Wooldridge Monuments are a series of historical monuments located in Maplewood Cemetery of Mayfield, Kentucky.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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Redirects here:

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfield,_Kentucky

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