Editing Morgan County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Morgan County was formed on December 7, 1822, from portions of Bath County and Floyd County.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2000 |title=Morgan County |url=http://www.kyenc.org/entry/m/MORGA05.html |access-date=August 23, 2014 |publisher=The Kentucky Encyclopedia}}</ref> It was named for [[Daniel Morgan]], a distinguished general in the [[American Revolutionary War]].<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/n36 36]}}</ref>

The first white settler in the county was Daniel Williams, a traveling preacher from Virginia who built the first permanent home in the vicinity several miles south of present-day West Liberty. Williams had also previously served in the American Revolution in the Kentucky Militia. 

During the Civil War, Morgan County was a majority Pro-Confederate County. 220 Morgan County men served as Union Soldiers, while nearly 400 or more served as Confederate soldiers. Morgan County men formed nearly all of A, B, C and parts of D and E. companies of the 5th KY Infantry. (CSA) 

On May 29, 1869, a portion of Morgan County became part of present day [[Menifee_County,_Kentucky|Menifee County]].

Morgan County was hit by an EF3 tornado on [[Tornado outbreak of March 2–3, 2012|March 2, 2012]], which cost the lives of six people and injured many others. Following the tornado, Morgan County's population decreased, but the county seat still has a strong population for a small town.

Morgan County had begun building a new court house in 2011, but the tornado delayed its construction to late 2013.