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===Formation=== Johnson County was formed on February 24, 1843, by the Kentucky General Assembly from land given by [[Floyd County, Kentucky|Floyd]], [[Lawrence County, Kentucky|Lawrence]], and [[Morgan County, Kentucky|Morgan]] counties.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Collins |first=Lewis |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5FQAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA399 |title=History of Kentucky |year=1877 |isbn=9780722249208 |page=399|publisher=Library Reprints, Incorporated }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Johnson Country Historical and Genealogical Society |title=Johnson County, Kentucky: History and Families |date=August 21, 2001 |publisher=Turner Publishing |isbn=978-1563117565 |location=Paducah, KY |pages=8 |oclc=57514858 |ol=8642451M}}</ref> At that time, its county seat of [[Paintsville, Kentucky|Paintsville]] had already been a chartered city for nine years. Homes had been built in Paintsville as early as the 1810s.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wells |first=J.K. |title=The Gathering of the Trades People: The Early and Pre-History of Paintsville and Johnson County, Kentucky |year=1992 |pages=98 pages |type=Hardcover |asin=B0006EZ726}}</ref> Many of the families at the beginning of Johnson County's formation were of Scottish, Irish, English, or German descent. Also, a fact lost to most historians is the large population of French Huguenots who were confused as English because they fled via England en route to the United States. Many of these settlers migrated from [[North Carolina]], [[Pennsylvania]], and [[Virginia]] following their participation in the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]]. For about its first twenty-five years, Johnson County and Paintsville struggled along. Roads and highways were nonexistent. Mail and supplies reached Johnson County from the [[Bluegrass region]] by horseback and steamboat. Years later, stage coaches began to connect eastern Kentucky and Johnson County to the bluegrass region and the rest of civilization.<ref name="johnsoncohistory" />
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