Editing Manchester, Kentucky (section)

==History==
The town was founded to be the seat of the newly formed [[Clay County, Kentucky|Clay County]] in 1807 on a {{convert|10|acre|adj=on|sp=us}} parcel near the Lower Goose Creek Salt Works. The county court stipulated that the town be named '''Greenville''' in honor of the [[War of 1812]] [[Green Clay|general]] who gave the county its name.<ref name=ren>Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA186 p. 186]. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref> The [[Greenville, Kentucky|Greenville]] in [[Muhlenberg County]] had already preempted that name, however, and it was changed to "Manchester" in December. There was a local legend in the town that this was in honor of the hometown of [[general (U.S.)|Gen]]. [[Theophilus Toulmin Garrard|Garrard]]'s second wife Lucy Lees, but a prominent local family, the Hollingsworth, were originally from Manchester, England.  Rennick points out that Lees was born well after the naming of the city. He opines that it is more likely that the local businessmen simply wanted a name evocative of the [[Manchester, England|English industrial success]].<ref name=ren/>