Lovely is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

located in Martin County,

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, United States.

History

A post office called Lovely has been in operation since 1931. Lovely was the name of the town's merchant, Samuel Dorsey Lovely. A

folk etymology Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a mo ...

maintains the community was so named on account of the "lovely" scenery of the original town site.

Education

Lovely has a

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, a branch of the Martin County Public Library.

References

Unincorporated communities in Martin County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{MartinCountyKY-geo-stub