Paoli is an unincorporated historical community in
Clinton County, Kentucky in the
United States that served as the first
county seat when the county was organized in 1835.
["Albany" in ''Place Names Beginning with the Letter A'', Kentucky Place Names, Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection, Camden-Carroll Library, Morehead State University, https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennick_ms_collection/6/, Publication Date 11-9-2016, last accessed January 13, 2019.][Kentucky Hometown Locator: ''Paoli (historical) - Populated Place Feature (Populated Place) in Clinton County'', https://kentucky.hometownlocator.com/maps/feature-map,ftc,3,fid,2742101,n,paoli.cfm, last accessed January 13, 2019.] The name derives from Corsican patriot, statesman and military leader
Pasquale Paoli
Filippo Antonio Pasquale de' Paoli (; french: link=no, Pascal Paoli; 6 April 1725 – 5 February 1807) was a Corsican patriot, statesman, and military leader who was at the forefront of resistance movements against the Genoese and later ...
, who inspired the American
Sons of Liberty movement. Many of the town's settlers had come from
Paoli, Pennsylvania, which had been the site of a
massacre during the Revolutionary War.
Paoli was a contender in 1837 to become the permanent
county seat, but lost to
Albany, two miles to its north.
A
post office established at Paoli in 1833 was also moved to
Albany in 1837.
[Kentucky Atlas & Gazeteer: ''Albany, Kentucky'', https://www.kyatlas.com/ky-albany.html, last accessed January 13, 2019.]
Paoli's location is shown on the
USGS's Albany, Kentucky
topographical map
In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large- scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but historic ...
.
[U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Geographic Names Information Service: ''Paoli (historical)'' and ''Paoli Post Office (historical)'', https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=138:2:0::NO:RP, last accessed January 13, 2019.][Topozone: '' Paoli (historical) Topo Map in Clinton County KY'', https://www.topozone.com/kentucky/clinton-ky/city/paoli-historical/, last accessed January 13, 2019.]
References
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Unincorporated communities in Cumberland County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky