Kentucky
When we think about Kentucky we think of horses, bourbon and bluegrass. The name Kentucky is though to have been derived from an Iroquoian Indian term for “meadow land.” In 1774 Daniel Boone, one of the figures on the Kentucky State flag, along with soldier James Harrod led the establishment of the first permanent settlement in the state of Kentucky named Harrodsburg. ... Kentucky entered the Union on June 1st, 1792 as the 15th State. ... regions of the North and the South, Kentucky officially remained in the Union during the American Civil War, but a considerable number of its citizens fought with the Confederate army.