Editing Morgantown, Kentucky (section)

==History==
[[File:Main Street Morgantown.jpg|thumb|Buildings on the western side of the 100 block of N. Main Street in Morgantown]]
The settlement may have originally been called '''Funkhouser Hill''' after Christopher Funkhouser, the local landowner who donated {{convert|60|acre}} of land to establish a seat for the newly formed Butler County in 1811.<ref name=ren>Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA203 p. 203]. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref> The etymology of the city's present name (originally written '''Morgan Town''') is uncertain. It may have been chosen to honor a hunter named Morgan or to honor Daniel Morgan Smith, the first white child born in the town.<ref name=enky>{{cite book |editor=Kleber, John E. |title=''The Kentucky Encyclopedia'' |year=1992 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=[[Lexington, Ky]]. |isbn=0-8131-1772-0 |chapter=Morgantown}}</ref> It was incorporated as Morgantown by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]] in 1813,<ref name=sos/> although the post office also went by the name '''Butler Court House''' during the 19th century.<ref name=ren/>

Granville Allen, a member of the [[17th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry|17th Kentucky Infantry]], was one of the first [[Union Army|Union]] soldiers to die in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], in a skirmish on October 29, 1861. A monument was erected by the Granville Allen Post #93 GAR. This first skirmish between the North and South took place on the Daniel Boone Johnson property. The Johnson Cemetery is still there and is directly above the monument, which is a [[limestone]] marker cut into the side of the old Logansport road.

Morgantown has one of only two monuments in the country dedicated to soldiers of both sides who died in the Civil War. The [[Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown]] is located on the grounds of the county courthouse.

The city formerly had a sister city in [[Tatsuruhama, Ishikawa|Tatsuruhama]], [[Japan]], but that city is now part of [[Nanao, Ishikawa|Nanao]].