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History of KentuckyBefore The War KentuckyIn the mid-1700's Kentucky began to be settled and explored, although there were no visible or significant Native American settlements during the exploration of Kentucky. It is to be believed that Native Americans had inhabited the area during the prehistoric age. When the explorers and settlers came to Kentucky they used the land to hunt on from the North to the South, by the Shawnees and the Cherokees. Therefore much of what we know as the commonwealth of Kentucky once belonged to the Native Americans, and was purchased in the treatise of Fort Stanwix and Sycamore Shoals. Kentucky then began to grow in rapid ways as some of the first settlements began to take root in the west, in what is called the Appalachian Mountains. The settlers moving in to this region of Kentucky were coming from our neighbors on the east coast namely, Virginia, North Carolina, as well as from the North in Pennsylvania. One of the most well known of these settlers was Daniel Boone, who is considered as one of the founders of the state. The newness wears off in the new settlements to the north of the Ohio River with the Shawnees as a result they became allies with the British and thus the American Revolutionary War begins. The American Revolutionary War begins in 1775 and commences in 1783, all with Kentucky finding itself as the battleground during the war. After the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) residents petitioned for a separation to occur between parts of Kentucky and parts of Virginia. Terms of the separation were agreed upon and a state constitution was written up which led Kentucky into becoming the fifteenth state to be added to the Union on June 1, 1792. As Kentucky becomes the fifteenth state and enters the union, Issac Shelby who was once a Virginian Veteran, becomes the first elected Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. And so history follows itself with the American Civil War. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Kentucky found itself a border state to the Union, which was north of the border and the confederacy to the south. Along with Kentucky, Arkansas to the west became a border state, remaining neutral, as well as West Virginia. Although Kentucky remained neutral, Kentucky was strategic in helping the Union win the war. After war, a time of Reconstruction began for the United States in order to bring about a resolution to the issues that resulted from the American Civil War. As a result of the Civil War, confederacy as well as slavery were destroyed, and so between 1865 and 1877 the United States entered into reconstructionism in order to return the Southern states that had seceded and to reconstruct the constitutional and legal status of the newly freed African-American slaves. Many a controversy arose when it came to how this reconstruction of the United States should occur so much so that it failed in the 1870's. Kentucky up until the turn of the century produced its own through self-sufficient means of farming known as subsistence agriculture. Yet production quickly moved from agriculture to industry, specifically the coal industry. To go back in time and recap the history of Coal Mining in Kentucky we go to 1750 when on April 13th the first discovery of coal was made by Dr. Thomas Walker. Then we find in Muhlenberg County in 1820 the first commercial coal mine near the Green River and Paradise known as the "McLean drift bank." As time passes in Kentucky, from the moment of the first commercial coal mine until production steadily rises and in 1843 Kentucky hits 100,000 tons in coal production. In 1860, the coal industry hits a production record of 285,760 tons. Then in 1877 the steam powered shovel is introduced to the coal industry, and then Kentucky in 1879 hits a one million ton production. To find out the rest of the story click here to read about the history of Kentucky in the 1900's.
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