Editing Adair County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Adair County was formed on December 11, 1801, from sections of [[Green County, Kentucky|Green County]].<ref name="kye" /> Columbia was chosen as the county seat the following year<ref name="kye" /> and the first courthouse was built in 1806.

The county was named in honor of [[John Adair]], a veteran of the Revolutionary War and Northwest Indian War. Later he commanded Kentucky troops in the [[Battle of New Orleans]]. He served as the eighth [[Governor of Kentucky]].<ref name="kye" /> This was the 44th of [[List of counties in Kentucky|Kentucky's 120 counties]] to be organized.<ref name="kye" />

After the [[American Civil War]], a gang of five men, believed to include [[Frank James|Frank]] and [[Jesse James]] from Missouri, robbed the Bank of Columbia of $600 on April 29, 1872. They killed the cashier, R.A.C. Martin, in the course of the robbery.<ref>William A. Settle, Jr., [https://archive.org/details/jessejameswashis0000sett ''Jesse James Was His Name''] 44 (1977).</ref>

The courthouse on the Columbia town square, completed in 1884, replaced the original 1806 courthouse.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hogan, Roseann Reinemuth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hAVlVS29NKIC&q=%22bell%20county%22%201914%201918%201976&pg=PA185 |title=Kentucky Ancestry: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research |publisher=Ancestry Publishing |year=1992 |isbn=9780916489496 |pages=185 |access-date=July 26, 2013}}</ref>