Where did the term Bluegrass come from?
Anyone know?
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http://www.ibma.org/about.bluegrass/history/index.asp
Leftover knowledge from grade school.
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"Origin: 1750
In New England in the mid-eighteenth century, bluegrass was considered a nuisance. In his book Field-Husbandry, published in 1751, Jared Eliot insisted that "The Land that you would improve this way, must be intirely free from Blue Grass, called by some Dutch Grass, or Wire Grass."
To the west, however, it looked better. "All the Way from the Shannoah Town to this Place," wrote Christopher Gist of Pennsylvania in that same year, is "full of beautiful natural Meadows, covered with wild Rye, blue Grass and Clover."
It remained for Kentucky to bring bluegrass to full flower, however. The place where bluegrass grows best has been known since the nineteenth century as the Bluegrass State. In the mid-twentieth century, bluegrass became even more famous as the name for a kind of music invented and cultivated in that part of the country."
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