Editing Olive Hill, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Olive Hill began as a rural [[trading post]] established by the Henderson brothers in the first part of the 19th century. Although Olive Hill was allegedly named by Elias P. Davis for his friend Thomas Oliver, there is no evidence to support this popular contention. In 1881, the town was moved from a hillside location to the current location in the [[Tygarts Creek]] valley, where the [[Elizabethtown, Lexington, and Big Sandy Railroad]] had laid tracks. The hillside location become known as Old Olive Hill and now serves as the city's residential area. On March 24, 1884, Olive Hill incorporated as a city and served as the county seat of the short-lived [[Beckham County, Kentucky|Beckham County]] from February 9 to April 29, 1904.<ref name=kye>{{cite book |author=Rennick, Robert M. |title=''Kentucky Place Names'' |year=1988 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |location=[[Lexington, Kentucky]] |isbn=0-8131-0179-4 |chapter=Place Names}} Retrieved on 2010-11-05</ref>

The [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway]] served Olive Hill and many other places on the railroad's Lexington Subdivision (running from [[Ashland, Kentucky|Ashland]] to [[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]]). The C&O merged into the Chessie System, which CSX Transportation later bought out, and after that CSX pulled up the railroad in the mid-1980s. Olive Hill retained and restored a passenger depot as well as a caboose ("John Hop Brown" Memorial Park).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.olivehill.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/2CB4FB65-428B-4452-B5BB-13EF4FF8928A/0/OliveHillLongTermRecoveryPlan.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2012-11-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810013710/http://www.olivehill.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/2CB4FB65-428B-4452-B5BB-13EF4FF8928A/0/OliveHillLongTermRecoveryPlan.pdf |archive-date=2014-08-10 }}</ref>

According to George C. Wright in his A History of Blacks in Kentucky, volume 2, "In the small community of Olive Hill in 1917, several hundred white laborers at the brick-making General Refractories Company threatened to strike unless recently employed blacks were dismissed. After first refusing to meet with the leaders of the disgruntled workers, the company managers acceded to their demand and fired all the black workers,"(p.&nbsp;14). 
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File:John "Hop" Brown Memorial Park.jpg|John "Hop" Brown Memorial park
File:Olive Hill Depot.JPG|Preserved Passenger Depot
File:Olive Hill High School.jpg|alt=Aerial view of the Olive Hill High School campus, Nov. 2022.|Aerial view of the Olive Hill High School campus, Nov. 2022.
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