Editing Guthrie, Kentucky (section)

==History==
The present location of Guthrie was the site of the '''Pondy Woods''' stagecoach stop in the 1840s; the community around it may have also been called '''State Line''' for a time, from the nearby [[Tennessee]] state line.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA127 | title=Kentucky Place Names | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | year=1987 | access-date=28 April 2013 | author=Rennick, Robert M. | pages=127}}</ref> The town was named for former [[list of U.S. representatives from Kentucky|Representative]] [[James Guthrie (American politician)|James Guthrie]], the president of the [[Louisville and Nashville Railroad]] at its founding in 1867.<ref>{{cite book |title=''Encyclopedia of Kentucky'' |chapter=Dictionary of Places: Guthrie |publisher=Somerset Publishers |location=[[New York, New York]] |year=1987 |isbn=0-403-09981-1}}</ref> Guthrie was formally incorporated by the [[Kentucky Assembly]] in 1876.<ref>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Guthrie, Kentucky". Accessed 28 July 2013.</ref> The town is also the birthplace of the first United States [[Poet laureate|Poet Laureate]] [[Robert Penn Warren]].