JESSAMINE COUNTY BUCKET LIST
Everything you should see and do in Jessamine County, Kentucky, before you kick the bucket.
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2. EAT SOME FRIED CHICKEN IN HONOR OF FORMER RESIDENT COLONEL SANDERS.
Harland Sanders lived in Nicholasville before he got famous. He ran a downtown service station that became a liquor store and still later an insurance firm. After visiting the site, head north on Main Street to the local KFC. Or head west to Fitch’s IGA in Wilmore to fill up on some fried chicken. It’s rumored that Leonard Fitch makes it with Colonel Sanders’s original KFC recipe.
3. VISIT JANE MEAUX'S HOUSE.
In 1837 a feisty woman divorced her husband, grew her estate to “large wealth,” and purchased fifteen enslaved people. Then she gave them emancipation papers and sent them all to Liberia, Africa. The destiny of one of them will shock you.
4. DRIVE ACROSS GLASS MILL BRIDGE.
From Wilmore, head down Glass Mill Road, one of the county’s most beautiful drives. After you descend to Jessamine Creek, slowly drive across the four-arch, European-style bridge built in the early 1930s as a Works Progress Administration project.
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