Kentucky Bend, a small area of Kentucky, is surrounded by Tennessee and Missouri due to its location on the Mississippi River. It has a history of cotton production and a notorious family feud, and is also known by several nicknames.
Kentucky is not a fully contiguous state: the southwesternmost part of it, called Kentucky Bend, is completely surrounded by Tennessee and Missouri. Considered a peninsula because it is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, the bend has an area of just under 18 square miles (about 45 square km).
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Nicknames for the bend include New Madrid Bend, Madrid Bend, Bessie Bend and Bubbleland.
Although there were fewer than 20 people living in Kentucky Bend in 2000, there were more than 300 in the late 1800s. This was because Kentucky Bend was an important cotton-producing area.
Kentucky Bend features in Mark Twain’s memoirs, in which he paints a picture of a six-decade-long family feud in the area that was so extreme that the two families, the Darnells and the Watsons, would bring their guns to church with them in case violence breaks out.
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