Editing Booneville, Kentucky (section)

==History==
The town was originally named '''Moore's Station''' after its chief landowner. It was renamed '''Boone's Station''' and then Booneville in honor of the American frontiersman, [[Daniel Boone]].<ref name=secsta>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State: Land Office. "[http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/cities/citydetail.asp?id=36&city=Booneville&idctr=36 Boonesville, Kentucky] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219111211/http://apps.sos.ky.gov/land/cities/citydetail.asp?id=36&city=Booneville&idctr=36 |date=February 19, 2014 }}". Accessed 22 July 2013.</ref> The town, consisting at the time of little more than a temporary log courthouse, became the county seat when Owsley County was formed on May 20, 1844. From this, the settlement was also sometimes known as '''Owsley Court House'''<!--sic: not Courthouse--> around this time. It was formally incorporated as a city by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]] on March 1, 1847.<ref name=secsta/> During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Booneville was a crossroads for various [[Union Army|Union]] and [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] regiments, and was threatened by Confederate guerrillas, but avoided the destruction that befell some other county seats of Kentucky during the war.

The [[Moyers Building]] in Boonesville was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.<ref>{{NRHP url|id=82001575}}</ref>