Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Jeffersonville, Kentucky
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==History== Jeffersonville began as an important cattle-trading center in [[Eastern Kentucky Coalfield|Eastern Kentucky]] during the mid-19th century. It was then known as "Ticktown", either for the [[Eragrostis echinochloidea|tickgrass]] (''Eragrostis echinochloidea'') in the area or for the [[tick]]s in the cattle pens. Although it is unknown when the settlement became known as Jeffersonville, the first post office was established under that name on March 9, 1866. It presumably honors [[list of U.S. presidents|President]] [[Thomas Jefferson]].<ref name=ren>{{cite book |author=Rennick, Robert M. |title=''Kentucky Place Names'' |year=1987 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=[[Lexington, Kentucky]] |isbn=0-8131-0179-4 |chapter=Place Names}} Accessed November 6, 2009.</ref> Jeffersonville was [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] on March 20, 1876.<ref name=sos>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Jeffersonville, Kentucky". Accessed August 1, 2013.</ref><ref>Rennick (1987) claims it was reïncorporated in 1967, but this is not recorded by the Kentucky Secretary of State's Land Office.</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Jeffersonville, Kentucky
(section)
Add topic