Editing Corbin, Kentucky (section)

==History==
[[File:Col Sanders Restaurant.png|left|thumb|200px|The [[Harland Sanders Café and Museum]]]]
The first settlement in the Corbin area was known as Lynn Camp Station. The first post office was called Cummins, for community founder Nelson Cummins. It was discovered in 1885 that both Cummins and Lynn Camp were already in use as names for Kentucky post offices, and postmaster James Eaton was asked to select another name. He chose Corbin for the Rev. James Corbin Floyd, a local minister.<ref>''Corbin-Times Tribune'', 1906. James Eaton is quoted as saying he named the town for Rev. Floyd "the finest man I know."</ref> The town was incorporated under that name in 1905.

Corbin has a troubled racial past, including a [[Corbin, Kentucky race riot of 1919|race riot in late October 1919]] in which a white mob forced nearly all the town's 200 black residents onto a freight train out of town and a [[sundown town]] policy until the late 20th century.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7772527 NPR].</ref> The event is the subject of a 1991 documentary, ''Trouble Behind''. In October 2019, city leaders marked the riot's centennial with a proclamation acknowledging the riot and former sundown town policy.<ref>{{cite news|title=Former Kentucky 'sundown' town shadowed by racist past|first=Chris|last=Kenning|work=[[The Courier-Journal]]|location=Louisville, Kentucky|date=September 14, 2020|accessdate=April 22, 2021|url=https://www.courier-journal.com/in-depth/news/2020/09/14/former-kentucky-sundown-town-shadowed-by-racist-past/5607254002/}}</ref>

For most of its history, the urbanized areas of Corbin in Laurel County were not incorporated into the city limits due to a state law prohibiting cities from being in more than two counties. However, a 2021 change to state law allowed cities to voluntarily annex property in a third county if the city already provides public infrastructure to that property.<ref>{{cite act
| title = AN ACT relating to local government
| date = {{date|2021-03-28|mdy}}
| url = https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/21RS/documents/0145.pdf
| access-date = 2022-03-28}}</ref> In March 2022, the Corbin City Commission approved an annexation request for a property in Laurel County.<ref>{{cite news|title=Laurel County business to be annexed into Corbin city limits; Dispatcher pay increased|first=Erin|last=Cox|work=Corbin Times Tribune|location=Corbin, Kentucky|date=March 24, 2022|accessdate=March 28, 2022|url=https://www.thetimestribune.com/news/local_news/laurel-county-business-to-be-annexed-into-corbin-city-limits-dispatcher-pay-increased/article_6bd26da9-2060-5f2a-873f-33823bccbe70.html}}</ref>