Have you ever wondered how some of our local communities were named?\u00a0 Here are a few to get you going, but there are a lot of communities not on this list.\u00a0 Please leave a comment if you know of any these naming stories; we would love to hear from you!<\/p>\n
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\u2022 Select was suggested by the Post Office Department in Washington after community residents wrote and asked what they should name the local post office. Washington had answered by saying, \u201cSelect a name\u2026\u201d so the residents had no trouble.
\n\u2022 Equality was centered around an old log cabin church building, a good sized community where each family was a large one; all the people made a living of about the same, none were rich, none were poor and the church going people were all \u201cequal.\u201d A railroad station later built in the community was called Kronos by the railroad and since there was another Kronos post office in Kentucky a different name had to be selected for the post office, which was located directly across from the railroad station. The residents who had been attending Equality Church decided on Equality post office and the same community had two names.
\n\u2022 Centertown was first called Rowe Town for the many families by the name of Rowe who settled there. Also because Ceralvo, Point Pleasant, and Hartford were about the same distance from Rowe Town the community was named Centerville, which later became Centertown.
\n\u2022 Dundee was first Hine\u2019s Mill, so called because a man named Hines had a mill there on the Rough River. When a post office was designated for the community, they named it Dundee because of the famous goat weathervane was made in Dundee, Scotland.
\n\u2022 The Post Office in Matanzas was established during the Spanish-American War that was being fought in Cuba. The state of Matanzas in Cuba was often featured in the news.
\n\u2022 McHenry was named for Colonel Henry D. McHenry, successful businessman and congressman, and leader in getting the construction of the Elizabethtown and Paducah railroad (which later became a part of the Illinois Central\u2019s Kentucky Division) through Ohio County in 1871.
\n\u2022 Rosine was the second railroad station above Beaver Dam, so christened in honor of Col. McHenry\u2019s wife, Jennie Taylor, who wrote poems under the nom de plume, Rosine.
\n\u2022 Hartford is believed to have been \u201cHart\u2019s Ford\u201d or deer crossing of the Rough River near the bluff where the Fort was built in 1782.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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