Lair 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 Harrison 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 ...

, United States. Lair is located on U.S. Route 27, south of Cynthiana.

History

The community was named after Isaac Newton Lair, an early settler. A post office was established as Lair's Station in 1860, was renamed Lair in 1882, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1920. In the 1870s, the community contained a store, two

gristmill A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings. The term can refer to either the grinding mechanism or the building that holds it. Grist is grain that has been separat ...

s, and two distilleries.

References

Unincorporated communities in Harrison County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{HarrisonCountyKY-geo-stub