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Book traces origins of Kentucky place names and origins
PRESTONSBURG Kentucky AP Robert M Rennick has compiled about 110000 Kentucky place names and a 399 page 30 book from the Kentucky Place Name Survey he leads since 1977 The book surveys 2000 names and explains how towns creeks and counties got their names including Hazard Zebulon and Paducah and notes many names derive from wildlife landscapes or early settlers The work aims to create a central archive of place names and reveal the stories behind them
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Prestonsburg
Hazard
Robert M. Rennick
Heledhawa
Paducah
Rennick
Kentucky
Cabinet For Human Resources
University Press of Kentucky
Aaron
Zula
Bombay
Meade County
Clay County
Wayne County
Beaver Creek
Dry Ridge
Thousandsticks
Leslie County
Washington
Monroe
Perry County
Oliver Hazard Perry
Lake Erie
Zebulon
Pikeville
Pike County
Zebulon Pike
Pike
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Missouri
Louisville
Louis XVI
Lexington
Massachusetts
Lincoln County
Abraham Lincoln
Grant County
John Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Democrat
Letcher County
W. Delancey Walbridge
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