Editing Paris, Kentucky (section)

==History==
Joseph Houston settled a station in the area in 1776, but was forced to relocate due to prior land grants. In 1786, Lawrence Protzman purchased the area of present-day Paris from its owners, platted {{convert|250|acre}} for a town, and offered land for public buildings in exchange for the [[Virginia legislature]] making the settlement the seat of the newly formed Bourbon County. In 1789, the town was formally established as '''Hopewell''' after [[Hopewell, New Jersey]], his hometown. The next year, it was renamed Paris after the [[Paris|French capital]] to match its county and honor the French assistance during the [[American Revolution]].

Among the early settlers in the late 18th and early 19th centuries were French refugees who had fled the excesses of their own [[French Revolution|revolution]].{{citation needed|date=November 2020}} One Frenchman was noted in a 19th-century state history as having come from [[Calcutta]], via [[Bengal]], and settled here as a schoolteacher.<ref name="shipping">[https://books.google.com/books?id=0dc_AAAAYAAJ&dq=Origin+of+name+of+Bengal%2C+KY&pg=PA294 William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, G. C. Kniffin, ''Kentucky: A History of the State''], "Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony, Its Expansion Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier Beyond the Alleghanies : the Erection of Kentucky as an Independent State, and Its Subsequent Development", Adair County (Ky.): F. A. Battey, 1887, p. 294</ref>

The post office was briefly known as '''Bourbontown''' or '''Bourbonton''' in the early 19th century, but there is no evidence that this name was ever formally applied to the town itself.<ref name=ren>Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA226 p. 226]. University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 August 2013.</ref> It was incorporated as Paris in 1839 and again in 1890.<ref name=sos/>

African American students attended Paris Colored High School.<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KXVuqgc6BXsC&dq=%22paris+colored+high+school%22&pg=PA2510 |title=Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year ... with Accompanying Papers |date=1901 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref> Paris is the "[[sister city]]" of [[Lamotte-Beuvron]] in [[France]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://paris.ky.gov/SisterCity.aspx|title=Paris, KY - Sister City|website=paris.ky.gov|access-date=2 April 2018}}</ref>