The World's Most Beautiful Places
A lawn jockey seen in the historic downtown of Versailles, Kentucky. Lawn jockey’s are a common sight in Kentucky, particularly in rural areas, and in particular horse rearing areas of the state, like the Bluegrass region where thoroughbred horse racing and the Kentucky Derby held each spring in Louisville, are a multi-billion dollar industry. Versailles, lies in the heart of the bluegrass, so I was not surprised to find one.
A coal barge navigates the Fourteenth Street Bridge Drawbridge, and McAlpine Lock and Dam at the Falls of the Ohio on the Ohio River at sunset, between Louisville, Kentucky and Clarksville, Indiana.
An old water tower at at the Buffalo Trace Bourbon Distillery in Frankfort Kentucky. The first Kentucky bourbon dates back to 1795, when Jacob Beam first sold his “Old Jake Beam Sour Mash. Seven generations of the Beam family have been involved in the production bourbon since that time.
The Buffalo Trace Distillery, which dates back to 1775, has gone by several names over that time, including George T. Stagg Distillery and the Old Fashioned Copper (O.F.C.) Distillery. The current name, Buffalo Trace, refers to well known pathways that buffalo herds left behind on the Great Plains and Midwest that Indian tribes and later European pioneers, followed during their travels. In some cases they became the basis for highways now used today in the United States.