Editing Jefferson County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
{{See also|History of Louisville, Kentucky}}
Jefferson County—originally [[Jefferson County, Virginia]]—was established by the [[Virginia General Assembly]] in June 1780, when it abolished and [[Partition (politics)|partitioned]] [[Kentucky County]] into three counties: [[Fayette County, Kentucky|Fayette]], Jefferson and [[Lincoln County, Kentucky|Lincoln]]. Named for [[Thomas Jefferson]], who was governor of [[Virginia]] at the time,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ |title=The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 1 |publisher=Kentucky State Historical Society |year=1903 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ/page/n116 35]}}</ref> it was one of Kentucky's nine original counties on June 1, 1792.

[[File:Kentucky County, Virginia 1780.png|thumb|center|upright=1.05|Jefferson County in 1780, as established by the [[Virginia General Assembly]]]]
In 1778, during the [[American Revolutionary War]], [[George Rogers Clark]]'s militia and 60 civilian settlers, established the first American settlement in the county on [[Corn Island (Kentucky)|Corn Island]] in the [[Ohio River]], at head of the [[Falls of the Ohio]]. They moved to the mainland the following year, establishing Louisville.

[[Richard Mentor Johnson]], the 9th [[Vice President of the United States]], was born in Jefferson County in 1780, while the family was living in a settlement along the [[Beargrass Creek (Kentucky)|Beargrass Creek]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 17, 1781 |title=Richard M. Johnson, 9th Vice Pres. of the USA |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-M-Johnson-9th-Vice-Pres-of-the-USA/6000000008140018436 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703162342/https://www.geni.com/people/Richard-M-Johnson-9th-Vice-Pres-of-the-USA/6000000008140018436 |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |access-date=July 3, 2018 |website=geni_family_tree |language=en-US}}</ref>

The last major American Indian raid in present-day Jefferson County was the [[Chenoweth Massacre]] on July 17, 1789.