KY History Drive — Kentucky Historical Markers

Find official Kentucky Historical Society markers while you drive — map, pins, and the story at the roadside. OpenStreetMap basemap via MapLibre (no Google Maps). Browse daily history briefs as Stories, or filter them on the Timeline.

Timeline

Stories from daily Kentucky History morning briefs, sorted by start year.

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Year/era filters also update History (and Stories) pins on the Map.

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About

KY History Drive is a web companion to the KY Markers Drive iPhone app. It helps you explore Kentucky’s historical highway markers on a map, read daily Kentucky History stories, and browse those stories on a timeline by era and year.

Credits

Marker text and locations: Kentucky Historical Society / history.ky.gov
Map rendering: MapLibre GL JS
Basemap tiles: CARTO Voyager (OpenStreetMap data)
State outline: Natural Earth
Stories: Kentucky History morning briefs for the KY History Drive project
Layer places (history, museums, parks, and more): KY Markers Drive project data

iPhone app

KY Markers Drive (iOS) is in App Review. App Store link will go here when live.