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The prehistory and history of Kentucky spans thousands of years, and has been influenced by the state's diverse geography and central location. Based on evidence in other regions, it is likely that human history of Kentucky began sometime before 10,000BCE. Around 1800 BCE, a gradual transition began from a hunter-gatherer economy to agriculturalism. Around 900 CE, a Mississippian culture took root in western and central Kentucky; by contrast, a Fort Ancient culture appeared in eastern Kentucky. While the two had many similarities, the distinctive ceremonial earthwork mounds constructed in the former's centers were not part of the culture of the latter.
The first Europeans to visit Kentucky were in the late 17th century, and arrived by the Ohio River from west of the Appalachians. In 1769, iconic frontiersman Daniel Boone led an expedition that discovered the Cumberland Gap Trail through the lower Appalachians. This enabled a direct overland migration path that greatly facilitated immigration to Kentucky and beyond. Later, he settled his namesake Boonesborough on the Kentucky River. The first permanent European-American settlement, Harrod's Town, was established in 1774. Lord Dunmore's War and the American Revolution temporarily forestalled settlement and statehood. But the construction of the mighty Fort Nelson at the Falls of the Ohio in 1781 began a westward and southward expansion that led to the Cherokee-American wars that weren't concluded until 1795. Kentucky was the 15th U.S. state, admitted to the Union on June 1, 1792 during the height of the Indian wars. Ke
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