Kentucky’s state capital is actually a small historic town full of rural Kentucky charm, surrounded by verdant horse farms and artisanal distilleries including the Buffalo Trace Distillery. As the resting place of celebrated frontiersman Daniel Boone, and a key stop on the Civil War Heritage Trail, Frankfort has a deep history that can be glimpsed in the old buildings of downtown, as well as at several history and art museums and the beautiful State Capitol building.

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