Kentucky
- Bardstown - Bourbon Capital of the World
- Benham - The Little Town That International Harvester, Coal Miners, and Their Families Built
- Berea - Folk Arts and Crafts Capital of Kentucky
- Bowling Green
- Vette City
- The Park City
- Burnside - The Only Town on Lake Cumberland
- Cave City - Gateway to Mammoth Cave
- Covington - Gateway to the South
- Crestwood - Whiskers
- Danville - City of Firsts
- Elizabethtown - E Town
- Elkhorn City - Gateway to the Breaks
- Fort Thomas - The City of Beautiful Homes
- Grayson - Heart of the Parks
- Hazard - Queen City of the Mountains
- Hopkinsville - Hoptown
- Hyden - Redbud Capital of the World
- Lexington
- Athens of the West
- Horse Capital of the World
- Louisville
- City of Beautiful Churches
- Derby City
- The Fall City (reported in the 1880s) or Falls City
- Gateway to the South
- River City
- The Ville
- Madisonville - Best Town on Earth.
- Manchester - City of Hope
- Middlesboro
- The Athens of the Mountains
- The City Built Inside a Meteorite Crater
- Little Las Vegas
- The Magic City
- Monticello - Houseboat Capital of the World
- Owensboro - Barbecued Mutton Capital of the World
- Paducah - Quilt City
- Paintsville - The City Between the Lakes
- Paris - Thoroughbred Capital of the World
- Pikeville - The City That Moves Mountains
- Prestonsburg - The Star City of Eastern Kentucky
- Renfro Valley - Kentucky's Country Music Capital
- Shelbyville - The Gateway to the Bluegrass
- Simpsonville - American Saddlebred Capital of the World
- Williamsburg - Your Gateway to the Cumberlands
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“He believes without reservation that Kentucky is the garden spot of the world, and is ready to dispute with anyone who questions his claim. In his enthusiasm for his State he compares with the Methodist preacher whom Timothy Flint heard tell a congregation that “Heaven is a Kentucky of a place.””
—For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The head must bow, and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darkey may go;
A few more days, and the trouble all will end,
In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
A few more days for to tote the weary load,—
No matter, ‘t will never be light;
A few more days till we totter on the road:—
Then my old Kentucky home, good-night!”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)
“The pure products of America go crazy—mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)