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Endnotes 8. Alexander Chapel, organized in 1837 to serve area
1. The county’s first sheriff, Nicholas Jasper, a Revo-
Methodists, was named for its first pastor William
lutionary War veteran, whose brother William was also
Alexander who had secured a deed for it from Rev.
killed at Savannah, is said to have suggested the Ken-
Emerson. The building, on Old Ky 90, one fourth of a
tucky county’s name, one of seven in
mile within Pulaski County, was erected in 1852.
the US named
for the Polish patriot.
9. The South Fork of the Cumberland River, noted
2. In 1801 Pulaski lost 310 square miles toward the
today as the Big South Fork or the Big South Fork
creation of Wayne County; in 1810 it lost twenty to-
River (and in pre-settlement times as Flute River)
ward the creation of Rockcastle County; in 1818, in
heads where the Clear Fork and New Rivers meet in
an exchange with Wayne County, it gained twenty
Scott County, Tennessee and extends roughly sixty
square miles (the future Quinton and Bronston areas);
eight miles north to the Cumberland at Burnside. In
in 1826 it lost eighty to Whitley County; in 1831 it
March 1974 a Congressional act established the
lost ten to Wayne; in 1840 it lost ten to Russell County;
105,000 (now 119,000) acre Big South Fork National
and finally, in 1912, it gave up 150 square miles to-
River and Recreation Area (mostly in Tennessee) to
ward creation of McCreary County
be managed by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. In 1986
.
this joined the National Park System.
3. Preston McGrain and James C. Currens, Topogra-
phy of Kentucky
10. Keno, for the literary minded, was the setting of
, Kentucky Geological Survey, Se-
ries X, 1978, Pp. 63-65
local resident Harriet Simpson Arnow’s famed novel
Hunters Horn, published in 1944, the year she and
4. In 1881 the Cincinnati Southern was leased to and her husband left for a new home in Michigan.
renamed the Cincinnati New Orleans and Texas Pa-
cific (CNO & TP) Railway, and later still was leased
11. The Wilderness Trail in Lincoln County, a manu-
by, and then became a branch of, the Southern Rail-
script submitted to the Filing and Lending Bureau of
way System which, in 1982, combined with the Nor
the DAR by Mrs. Craig of Stanford, Ky., 1941. The
-
folk and Western Railway to become the Norfolk-
reference to Col. Buchanan also appears in this manu-
Southern.
script which was published serially in the Stanford
Interior Journal and The Richmond Register, Febru-
5. The New Jersey county had been named for the ary and March 1941. A copy of the manuscript is in
English county of Somerset. the Lincoln County vertical files of the Kentucky
6. Wait, best known for his attempts to develop a silk
Historical Society library.
industry in Pulaski County, was also an early 12. Joe Creason, feature writer for the Louisville Cou-
saltmaker with a well on his Fishing Creek farm rier Journal, once reported (June 23, 1971) another
known as the Salt Well Farm. He later owned a store oft told story, with little historic credence, about a
and wharf in the community bearing his name, and local election when nobody produced the requisite jug
for several terms represented the county in both houses of whiskey to entice voters. When someone said we
of the Kentucky legislature. can’t hold the election since there’s no jug, he was
7. Having acquired a thousand acres on both sides of
told that the election would go on, jug or not.
the river in 1795-96, Col. Samuel Newell, Joseph’s 13. Ax, Ed, Ep, Ep, OK, Oz, UZ, and Vi.
father, a Revolutionary War veteran, and future pre-
siding justice of the Pulaski Court, built his home at
14. Fred W. Luigart, Jr., “Pulaski Countians Claim
this site in 1797 and called it Clio [klee/oh]. Here the
‘Shortest Creek in
first Wayne County post office of Clio was established
the World”’ Louisville Courier-Journal, November 23,
on April 19, 1834 by the Rev.
1960, P. 81 15. From an account in the Somerset Com-
Walter Emerson who,
with his son Thomas F., ran it till November 1861.
monwealth, cited in the Louisville Times, December
According to Pulaski historian Alma Tibbals (A His-
28, 1932
tory of Pulaski County, Kentucky, Bagdad: Grace
16. According to Eula Hale Meece in her sister Verna
Owens Moore, 1952, P. 75), its name, for one of the
(Mrs. Woodrow)Allen’s undated manuscript history
classic muses of song and poetry, was aptly inspired
of Ula.
for the view from its hilly site was “certainly song
inspiring”.
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