Manchester is a home rule-class city in

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, in the United States. Manchester is part of the Corbin KY Micropolitan statistical area, as is the entirety of Clay County, and is the

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of its county and the home of a minimum- and medium-security federal prison. The city's population was 2158 at the 2010 census.

History

The town was founded to be the seat of the newly formed

in 1807 on a parcel near the Lower Goose Creek Salt Works. The county court stipulated that the town be named Greenville in honor of the

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who gave the county its name.Rennick, Robert. ''Kentucky Place Names''
p. 186
University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1987. Accessed 1 August 2013. The Greenville in Muhlenberg County had already preempted that name, however, and it was changed to "Manchester" in December. There was a local legend in the town that this was in honor of the hometown of Gen. Garrard's second wife Lucy Lees, but a prominent local family, the Hollingsworth, were originally from Manchester, England. Rennick points out that Lees was born well after the naming of the city. He opines that it is more likely that the local businessmen simply wanted a name evocative of the English industrial success.

Geography

Manchester is located at (37.152818, -83.763403). According to the

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, the city has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2010, there were 1,255 people, 579 households, and 332 families living in the city. The population density was . There were 655 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 92.5%

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, 6.3%

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, 0% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.2% from other races, and 0.1% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 1% of the population. There were 579 households, out of which 23.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 33.5% were

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living together, 19% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.7% were non-families. 37.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 19.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.16 and the average family size was 2.84.

Education

Manchester has a lending library, the Clay County Public Library.

Media

Manchester is the

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cited by four

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: * WWXL * WKLB * WTBK * WWLT

Notable people

* Bert T. Combs – Former jurist and 50th Governor of Kentucky. * Theophilus T. Garrard – A politician and Union general in the American Civil War. *

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– Former

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shooting guard and Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture.

References

External links

claycountykentucky.org

''The Manchester Enterprise''

Manchester News and Photos at Claylive.com
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