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Hemp was one of the two most notable crops of Kentucky. This nickname originated based on the importance of this crop to the Commonwealth. Tobacco, the other notable Kentucky crop is the source of this nickname. This nickname may have originated as a reference to the poorer people living in the mountainous regions of the Commonwealth. Another theory has it that this nickname is derived from a crane that was common in Kentucky. This crane was said to make a "craking" sound and was called a Corn-crake.

Some have proposed that "Corn-cracker" is a corruption of "Corn-crake. Some have said that the land was described in this way to Daniel Boone by an Indian Chief. According to The Kentucky Blue Book , "Dragging Canoe, a young Cherokee chief opposed to selling ancestral hunting grounds, warned the whites that they were purchasing a "dark and bloody ground. State Fish. State Flag. State Flower. State Fossil. State Fruit. State Gemstone. State Gun. State Honey Festival.

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