Nonnell () 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
Muhlenberg County
Muhlenberg County () is a county in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,928. Its county seat is Greenville and its largest city is Central City.
History
Muhlenberg County was formed in 1798 from ...
,
Kentucky
Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...
, United States.
History
Nonnell was originally named Elk Valley. The community was renamed for John Lennon who was a maintenance supervisor for the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.
Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of ...
with his surname being reversed. From 1916 to 1931, the post office was known as Tarma for unknown reasons.
Notable people
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Bill J. Dukes, Alabama politician, was born in Nonnell in 1927, when the community was known as Tarma.
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See also
* List of geographic names derived from anagrams and ananyms
These are geographic anagrams and anadromes. Anagrams are rearrangements of the letters of another name or word. Anadromes (also called reversals or ananyms) are other names or words spelled backwards. Technically, a reversal is also an anagram, b ...
References
Unincorporated communities in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky
Unincorporated communities in Kentucky
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