Garden Village is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Pike County,
Kentucky
Kentucky ( , ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia ...
. It is located on the
Levisa Fork of the
Big Sandy River, below the Peyton Branch and southeast of
Pikeville.
History
It was founded as Liberty upon the creation of the county in 1822, with the intention of the community becoming the
seat of local governance. The site proved unpopular with local residents and Liberty was replaced by
Pike
Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus of ...
(present-day Pikeville) the next year.
[Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names'']
p. 233
University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 27 September 2013. Garden Village was established on the site by local landowner William Justice in 1945 and named after
Garden City, New York, which he had once visited.
[Rennick]
p. 113
It does not have a separate post office.
See also
* Other
places named Garden Village
References
Populated places established in 1822
Unincorporated communities in Pike County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
1822 establishments in Kentucky
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