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Haunted History
100
Home of Somernites Cruise a monthly classic car show. It has now become one of the largest monthly classic car events in the southeastern United States. As a result of this event, the Kentucky State Legislature has named this city as "The Car Cruise Capital of Kentucky".
What is Somerset
100
Born in 1937, U.S. Congressman from Kentucky
Who is Hal Rogers
100
Somerset High School mascot name
What is Briar Jumpers
100
Sheriff of Pulaski County, Kentucky. On the evening of April 13, 2002, he was assassinated by Danny Shelley after he finished a campaign speech at a fish fry and political rally being held at the Shopville-Stab, Kentucky Volunteer Fire Department
Who is Sam Catron
100
This child, who died at age 10, lived where Somerset High School now sits and it's said she walks the football field at night.
Who is Clara Morrow
200
On January 19, 1862, during the American Civil War, Union forces achieved their first significant victory, defeating the Confederates at the Battle of Mill Springs in this location
What is Nancy
200
Former U.S. senator, liberal Republican, and a member of the Warren Commission
Who is John Sherman Cooper
200
Pulaski County High School team name
What is Maroons
200
Who is Pulaski County named for?
Who is Count Casmir Pulaski
200
Legend reports that this Pulaski Co. site was once a Civil War Hospital and then a church. The Reverend pulled his flock into devil worship and sacrifices.
What is Soules Chapel
300
Because another community in Logan County already possessed a post office by the name of this city, the city long employed the name Luretha for mail delivery after the daughter of its first postmaster George Wynn.
What is Ferguson
300
Miss America, 1944
Who is Venus Ramey
300
Name of Southwestern high school teams
What is Warriors
300
Future governor (1919-23), he began his political rise. After losing by only 471 votes in the 1915 governor's race, He returned to the political wars in 1919 to upset the incumbent governor, James D. Black (1919). After his election, an estimated 10,000 people gathered around the Pulaski County Courthouse to congratulate the only governor the county has produced.
Who is Edwin Porch Morrow
300
Be careful on this road or a ghostly hitchhiker will get in your back seat for a ride.
What is Fishing Creek Road
400
This community was originally settled at the juncture of the Cumberland River and its South Fork. It was called Point Isabel, allegedly for a woman who jumped off a nearby cliff after breaking off a relationship.
What is Burnside
400
Author of Eastern Kentucky novels and histories. She and her husband farmed near Burnside in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
Who is Harriette Simpson Arnow
400
Somerset Christian team name.
What is Cougars
400
In its history, only three Democrats-have carried Pulaski County in a presidential contest.
Who are: -Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, and Woodrow Wilson
400
What industrial site in Pulaski Co. supposedly has a Witches Grave
What is Cooper Power Plant
500
This community was named by geologist William J. Bobbitt, who visited to gather and analyze the local rocks, and applied to the local post office by William B. Gragg in 1874
What is Science Hill
500
Rose Will Monroe, (1920–1997) born in Pulaski County and moved to Michigan during World War II where she helped build B-24's and B-29's for the war effort.
Who is Rosie the Riveter
500
Who won “The Miracle on Slaughterhouse Road” in 1992
Who are Pulaski County Cougars
500
This Pioneer merchant moved to Pulaski County from New England and developed a salt-works, operated a wharf on the river at Waitsboro, and planted mulberry trees in hopes of creating a silk industry. He helped pioneer both the banking and insurance industries in the county.
Who was Cyrenius Wait
500
In 2010, a Somerset couple appeared on what TV show with videos of a haunted cave in Somerset
What is My Ghost Stories (Caught On Camera).
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