Editing Hustonville, Kentucky (section)

==History==
The community was originally known as '''The Crossroads''' from its location on trails connecting the [[Kentucky River|Kentucky]] and [[Green River (Kentucky)|Green]] rivers and the [[Falls of the Ohio]] with [[Logan's Fort, Kentucky|Logan's Fort]] (present-day [[Stanford, Kentucky|Stanford]]). It was then known as '''Farmington''' and, after the 1818 erection of a post office, '''Hanging Fork''' after a local stream named for two bandits who were hanged by Virginia officers rather than escorted back for trial. For three months in 1826, it was known as '''New Store''', but the name then returned to Hanging Fork. When the town was established on February 29, 1836, it was renamed '''Hustonville''' after two local landowners; the post office adopted the name the next year.<ref name=ren>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA147 | title=Kentucky Place Names | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | year=1987 | accessdate=28 April 2013 | author=Rennick, Robert M. | pages=147}}</ref> The city was formally incorporated by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]] in 1850.<ref name=sos>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Hustonville, Kentucky". Accessed 29 July 2013.</ref>

During the mid 19th and early 20th centuries, Hustonville was home to Christian College.  The school was established following a fundraising campaign by William Logan Williams, who had been instrumental in securing money for church construction in the city.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=John Thomas|title=Churches of Christ: A Historical, Biographical, and Pictorial History of Churches of Christ in the United States, Australasia, England and Canada|year=1904|publisher=J. P. Morton|url=https://archive.org/details/churchesofchrist00brow_0|page=[https://archive.org/details/churchesofchrist00brow_0/page/n453 432]|quote=The church at Hustonville having no suitable house of worship,.|language=en}}</ref>  Future U.S. senator and Governor of Kentucky, [[Augustus Owsley Stanley|Augustus O. Stanley]], served as chair of ''[[belles-lettres]]'' at the school in 1890.<ref>Johnson, E. Polk. A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men in Commerce, Industry and Modern Activities. Chicago, Illinois: Lewis Publishing Company, 1912.</ref>