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Frankfort (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 38 12 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 38.2000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 084 52 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -84.8667 decimal degrees |
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Note: Located on the Kentucky river; as state capital, was twice burned early in its history; was occupied briefly in 1861 by Confederate general Braxton Bragg during Civil War; was badly damaged in flood of 1937. |
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| Frankfort (preferred,C,V)
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| Frank's Ford (H,V)
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............ | named after Stephen Frank, a frontiersman killed in a skirmish with Amerindians at a fording place on the river in 1780 |
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Frankfort (inhabited place) (P) |
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded by General James Wilkinson in 1786, incorporated in 1839 |
| city (C) |
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| state capital (C) |
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since 1792 |
| county seat (C) |
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| trade center (C) |
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| manufacturing center (C) |
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| university center (C) |
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of Kentucky State University, originally founded in 1886 for African Americans |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
Kentucky .......... (state) |
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(World, North and Central America, United States) [7007255] |
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