Lackey 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 Floyd 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 to ...

, United States. Lackey was home to a pack horse library as part of the

Pack Horse Library Project The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains between 1935 and 1943. Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different ...

in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

References

Unincorporated communities in Floyd County, Kentucky Coal towns in Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{FloydCountyKY-geo-stub