in tax credits for productions in the state.

As we look ahead to the 4th of July holiday, we're looking back at how Kentuckians observed Independence Day in the past and the Simpson County line has an unusual shape.

Our Toby Gibbs explains it as we take a look at this week in Kentucky history.

Lexington in celebrated America's 12th birthday at Thomas Young's Tavern on July 4th, 1888, Colonel William Price, a Revolutionary War veteran, hosted 40 veterans for a 4th of July dinner in Jessamine County in 1794.

One of the first significant celebrations of west of the Alleghenies on July 4th, 1924, Frankfort dedicated a monument honoring 25,000 black Americans who served in the Union Army during the Civil War.

President James Monroe and General Andrew Jackson, a future president, visited Lexington on July 2nd, 1819.

President Monroe spoke at Transylvania University and was honored at a banquet at Mrs. Keene's Tavern.

Former President Richard Nixon visited Hyden on July 1st, 1978, for the dedication of a building named in his honor.

It was Nixon's first public appearance since his resignation from the presidency four years earlier.

The state created the Kentucky State Police on July 1st, 1948.

What's up with this indentation in Simpson County in 1779 because of cloud cover that made astronomical observations difficult to surveyors wandered off course while marking the Tennessee Kentucky border after another survey on July 6th, 1859.

A second surveying team recommended leaving the so-called Middleton offset the way it was.

And that's tonight's look.

Back at this week in Kentucky history.

I'm Toby Gibbs.