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The State Flag of Kentucky (Bluegrass State)

Home to the Kentucky Derby. Want to know more about Kentucky?

• The world's largest baseball bat, 120 ft. tall & 68,000lbs, stands at the Louisville Slugger Museum.
• Cumberland Falls is the only waterfall in the Northern Hemisphere to display a moonbow.
• More than 500 roses are in the garland presented to the Kentucky Derby winner each year.
• The Jif plant in Lexington is the largest peanut butter producing facility in the world.
• Post-It Notes are manufactured exclusively in Cynthiana.
  The first observance of Mother's Day was in Henderson by teacher Mary S. Wilson in 1887. It was made a national holiday in 1916.
• The great Man o' War won all of his races except one, which he lost to a horse named Upset.
• Cheeseburgers were first served in 1934 at Kaelin's in Louisville.
• All Chevrolet Corvettes are manufactured in Bowling Green.
• The world's longest cave, Mammoth Cave, was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the U.S., preceded only by Niagara Falls.
• Mammoth Cave is the longest cave system in the world, with over 360 miles explored & mapped.
• More than $6 billion worth of gold is held in the underground vaults of Fort Knox. This is the largest amount of gold stored anywhere in the world.
• The public saw an electric light for the first time in Louisville. Thomas Edison introduced his incandescent light bulb to crowds at the Southern Exposition in 1883.
• Middlesboro, Kentucky is one of only a few cities in the U.S. built within a meteor crater.