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Fayette County, Kentucky
Fayette County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
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Year Organized: 1780
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Marquis de LaFayette (1757-1834), French military officer and
hero of the Revolutionary War. Demographics:
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History
One of three original counties formed
when Kentucky County, Virginia was divided by the Virginia Act in 1780 (the
other two counties being Jefferson and Lincoln). Fayette County included area
north and east of the Kentucky River, 37 present-day counties, and parts of 7
others. It was reduced to its present boundaries in 1799. The county is named
for Marquis de Lafayette, who came to America to assist with the American
Revolutionary War.
On January 1, 1974, Fayette County merged its government with that of its county
seat of Lexington, creating a consolidated city-county governed by the
Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government.
Neighboring Counties:
- North: Perry County
- Northeast: Letcher County; Wise County, Va.
- Southeast: Lee County, Va.
- Southwest: Bell County
- Northwest: Leslie County
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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Penn Foster High School
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