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Offutt was once called Ward's Town
- There are Indian Mounds
located along Paint Creek
- Toteros (Indian Tribe)
had villages at Hager Hill
- The Shawnee
Indians called the Big Sandy "The Michechobekasepe"- meaning
"River of great mystery" or "Big Medicine
River"
- A misspelling gave the
Levisa Fork its name from Louisa Fork
- James Skaggs killed the
Indian Chief that carried off Jenny Wiley at Red Bush
- Jenny Wiley
escaped across the river to Harman's Station with the help of Henry Skaggs
- Mathias Harman, feared
by Indians, was less than 5' tall and weighed less than 120 pounds
- Paintsville was
originally named Paint Lick Station
- In 1870, Paintsville's
population was 247
- A Poplar tree measuring
30 inches at 4 feet above the ground sold for $1.00 as
timber was floated to Catlettsburg, Kentucky in 1888
- Warfield was once the
unofficial county seat of Martin County
- Inez was once called
Eden and Arminta Ward's Bottom at the same time the Post
Office was called Inez
- Penicillin was first
administered in Paintsville on March 16, 1944, by Dr.
Paul B. Hall. R. W. Dodd was the recipient
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