The Kentucky Derby is the oldest continuously held horse race in the country. Mammoth Cave is the world's longest cave and was first promoted in 1816, making it the second oldest tourist attraction in the United States. The first Miss America from Kentucky is Heather Renee French. Kentucky is the state where both Abraham Lincoln, President of the Union, and Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, were born. Cumberland is the only waterfall in the world to regularly display a Moonbow.
Christian County is wet while Bourbon County is dry.
Teacher Mary S. Wilson held the first observance of Mother's Day in Henderson in 1887. The first town in the United States to be named for the first president was Washington. Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca are buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. The public saw an electric light for the first time in Louisville. The radio was invented by a Kentuckian named Nathan B. Stubblefield of Murray in 1892.