Editing Wayne County, Kentucky (section)

==History==
The first known European-American settlers to visit the area were [[longhunter]]s who arrived in the 1770s. They established a temporary camp near Mill Springs on the [[Cumberland River]]. Benjamin Price built a log cabin in 1775, and Price's Station became one of the earliest Kentucky settlements.<ref>"Price's Meadow", Kentucky Historical Marker #988, Wayne County, 10 miles north of Monticello on Ky Highway 90.</ref> This was still an area of [[Cherokee]] homeland territory, and conflicts arose between the groups as more Americans settled here.

Many Revolutionary War veterans followed Price, including Joshua Jones, who arrived in 1794, Jonathan and James Ingram in 1796, Cornelius Phillips in 1798, and Isaac West in 1799. Veterans, they had each been given land grants in the area, in lieu of back salary payments by the United States government from the war.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |title=The Kentucky Encyclopedia |publisher=University of Kentucky Press |year=1992 |isbn=0813117720 |editor-last=Kleber |editor-first=John |pages=938–39}}</ref>

Wayne County was formed December 13, 1800, from [[Pulaski County, Kentucky|Pulaski]] and [[Cumberland County, Kentucky|Cumberland]] counties. It was the 43rd county in the state and is named for [[Anthony Wayne|General "Mad Anthony" Wayne]], a hero of the [[American Revolution]] and the [[Northwest Indian War]].<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ |title=The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Vol. 1 |publisher=Kentucky State Historical Society |year=1903 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ/page/n37 37]}}</ref> Wayne's victory at the [[Battle of Fallen Timbers]] virtually ended the Indian threat against Kentucky settlers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Nelson |first=Paul David |url=https://archive.org/details/anthonywaynesold00nels |title=Anthony Wayne, Soldier of the Early Republic |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |year=1985 |isbn=0-253-30751-1 |publication-place=Bloomington IN |page=252 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

The area was developed for agriculture, and planters used enslaved African Americans as laborers. Early in the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Confederate Army General [[Felix Zollicoffer]] made his headquarters in the Brown-Lanier [https://www.millsprings.net/index.php/attractions/brown-lanier-house# House] at Mill Springs. He was killed at the [[Battle of Mill Springs]] on January 19, 1862, when he mistook some Union troops for his own and approached them. The Union men shot him dead, and without their leader, the Confederate were defeated.<ref name=":0" />

During the winter of 1861, the Confederate Government Of Kentucky issued an act to rename Wayne County to Zollicoffer County in honor of [[Felix Zollicoffer]], who died at the [[Battle of Mill Springs]].<ref name="brown89">Brown, p. 89</ref>