Kit Carson Elementary School (Kentucky)
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Kit Carson Elementary School is an elementary school in Richmond, Kentucky
. It was named for Kit Carson
, who was born not far from the school's site. It opened in 1962, and went under renovations in 1997, which included some of the windows boarded up with white concrete for air conditioners to be installed, an extension farther back from the school's front, which included a new library, and a new gymnasium. The old gymnasium became the cafeteria.
Richmond, Kentucky
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. It was named for Kit Carson
Kit Carson
Christopher Houston "Kit" Carson was an American frontiersman and Indian fighter. Carson left home in rural present-day Missouri at age 16 and became a Mountain man and trapper in the West. Carson explored the west to California, and north through the Rocky Mountains. He lived among and married...
, who was born not far from the school's site. It opened in 1962, and went under renovations in 1997, which included some of the windows boarded up with white concrete for air conditioners to be installed, an extension farther back from the school's front, which included a new library, and a new gymnasium. The old gymnasium became the cafeteria.