Colonel Sanders wasn't just the face of KFC - he was the chef behind its beloved recipes. He took his food seriously, even despite corporate interference.

Sanders lived out his final years at Blackwood Hall before his death in 1980 at the age of 94. Col. Harland Sanders married Claudia in 1949 and opened the Claudia Sanders Dinner House for his wife ...

In 1930, Shell Oil Company gave Sanders the chance to his own gas station in Corbin, Kentucky. In exchange for the meager earnings, the company allowed Sanders and his family to live in the back.

In September 2019, we received multiple inquiries from readers regarding an old story about the origins of the famous KFC original recipe — the blend of herbs and spices that went into creating ...

Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Getty Images Sanders' likeness is now synonymous with the brand and appears on the restaurant's logo.

The former primary 5,000-square-foot residence of Colonel Harland Sanders located in Shelbyville, Kentucky is up for sale, along with a 25,000-square-foot dining hall he opened later in life with ...

Business in Kentucky dried up by the mid-’50s, when the creation of Interstate 75 leeched business from Sanders’ roadside restaurant, motel and service station on the old U.S. 25.

Harland Sanders circa 1914. | KFC.com, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain At the time of the shootout, Harland Sanders was still years away from founding Kentucky Fried Chicken (now technically ...

Kentucky Colonel Harland Sanders was one of the first 31 Hometown Heroes banners installed across Louisville 20 years ago. Advertisement Sanders’ banner was starting to show its age, however.