Monday, October 15, 2012

Kentucky's Statehood at 150


In 1942, the Post Office issued a stamp honoring the "sesquicentennial," the one hundred fiftieth anniversary, of the formation of Kentucky in 1792. The stamp shows an engraving showing Daniel Boone on a hill eerily reminiscent of that of his grave site in Frankfort Cemetery, looking over toward the site of today's Kentucky State Capitol.

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