Kentucky was the 15th state to join the Union and the first on the western frontier.
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The world's largest free-swinging bell known as the World Peace Bell is on permanent display in Newport, Kentucky.
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Daniel Boone and his wife Rebecca are buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Their son Isaac is buried at Blue Licks Battlefield near Carlisle, where he was killed in the last battle of the Revolutionary War fought in Kentucky.