Paleo-Indian era (9500 BCE – 7500 BCE)
Based on evidence in other regions, humans were probably living in Kentucky before 10,000 BCE; however, archaeological evidence of their occupation has not yet

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Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet (1673)
French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette

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The etymology of "Kentucky" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquoisname meaning "land of tomorrow". According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's

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Pre-conquest Native American settlements
Eskippakithiki
Eskippakithiki(also known as Indian Old Fields), Kentucky's last

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By 1860, Kentucky's population had reached 1,115,684; twenty-five percent were slaves, concentrated in the Bluegrass region, Louisville and Lexington. Louisville, which had been a major slave market, shipped many slaves downriver to the Deep South and New

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Reconstruction
Although Kentucky was a slave state, it had not seceded and was not subject to military occupation during the Reconstruction era.

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Economy
Land speculation was an important source of income, as the first settlers sold their claims to newcomers for cash and moved further west. Most

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