Editing Alexandria, Kentucky (section)

==History==
[[File:Alexandria KY 2022d.jpg|left|thumb|Buildings in the historic downtown]]
It is believed that the area that is now Alexandria was first settled by Frank Spilman and his family {{circa|lk=no|1793}}.<ref name=kye>{{cite book |last=Kleber |first=John E. |chapter=Alexandria |editor=John E. Kleber |others=Associate editors: [[Thomas D. Clark]], [[Lowell H. Harrison]], and James C. Klotter |title=The Kentucky Encyclopedia |year=1992 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=Lexington, Kentucky |isbn=0-8131-1772-0 |url=http://www.kyenc.org/entry/a/ALEXA03.html |access-date=2011-11-06 |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717120546/http://www.kyenc.org/entry/a/ALEXA03.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The Spilman family was from [[King George County, Virginia]], and they may have named their settlement after [[Alexandria, Virginia]].<ref name=kye /> The family had begun developing and selling lots in the settlement by 1819,<ref name=kye /> the year the first post office was established. On February 22, 1834, Alexandria was formally established by an act of the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]].<ref name=comky>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Alexandria, Kentucky". Accessed 15 July 2013.</ref>

When the [[Kentucky General Assembly]] formed [[Kenton County, Kentucky|Kenton County]] from part of Campbell County in 1840, they moved Campbell's county seat from [[Newport, Kentucky|Newport]] to Alexandria, which was closer to the center of the redrawn county.<ref name=kye/> The citizens of Alexandria quickly constructed a county courthouse but, because the majority of the county's population lived in Newport, the move was not a popular one and it took a court order and a visit from the sheriff to get the county clerk to move.<ref>Reis, Jim. "[http://www.rootsweb.com/~kycampbe/courthouses.htm Alexandria and Newport Courthouses] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027045407/http://www.rootsweb.com/~kycampbe/courthouses.htm |date=2007-10-27 }}".</ref>

The city of Alexandria was formally incorporated by act of the state assembly in 1856.<ref name="comky"/>

In 1883, Newport successfully lobbied for its own Court House District, allowing it to retain a Court House Commission with taxing authority and various county offices in addition to those maintained at Alexandria. A new courthouse was established in Newport in 1884, and the county's fiscal court and judicial offices operated out of this while other administrative offices remained in Alexandria.<ref name=kye /> Nonetheless, the county was not dual seated<ref name=countyseat>''[[The Kentucky Enquirer]]'': "[http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/C2/20090512/NEWS/905120380/-1/recorder/Judge++Alexandria+the+only+county+seat Judge: Alexandria the only county seat] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217111300/http://nky.cincinnati.com/article/C2/20090512/NEWS/905120380/-1/recorder/Judge++Alexandria+the+only+county+seat |date=2012-02-17 }}". 12 May 2009. Accessed 28 May 2009.</ref> until 2010.<ref name="nevermind">{{cite news |url= http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20101124/NEWS010704/11250342/ |archivedate= March 14, 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120314075049/http://nky.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2FAB%2F20101124%2FNEWS010704%2F11250342%2F |date=March 14, 2012 |title= Appeals court: Campbell can have 2 county seats |first= Scott |last= Wartman |work= n.ky }}".</ref>

Pro wrestler [[B. J. Whitmer]] resides in Alexandria.