Kentucky Origin Of Name

The origin of Kentucky's name (variously spelled Cane-tuck-ee, Cantucky, Kain-tuck-ee, and Kentuckee before its modern spelling was accepted)[5] has never been definitively identified, though some theories have been debunked. For example, Kentucky's name does not come from the combination of "cane" and "turkey", nor does it mean "dark and bloody ground" in any known Indian language.[6] The most likely etymology is that it comes from an Iroquoian word for "meadow" or "prairie"[7][8] (c.f. Mohawk kenhtà:ke, Seneca këhta’keh).[9] Other possibilities also exist: the suggestion of early Kentucky pioneer George Rogers Clark that the name means "the river of blood",[5] a Wyandot name meaning "land of tomorrow", a Shawnee term possibly referring to the head of a river,[10] or an Algonquian word for a river bottom.[6]

Narrow country roads bounded by stone and wood plank fences are a fixture in the Kentucky Bluegrass.