* Owsley County ( north )

Among counties whose population contains a non-Hispanic white majority, it is the poorest by per-capita income and second to another county in the same Kentucky region, Owsley County, by median household income.

Wolfe County was formed on March 5, 1860 from portions of Breathitt County, Morgan County, Owsley County and Powell County.

* Clay County & Owsley County ( northwest )

According to the 2010 Census reports, Owsley County is the " poorest county in the United States '" Its county seat is Booneville and it is a dry county.

Owsley County was formed in 1843 from portions of Clay, Breathitt, and Estill Counties and was named for Governor William Owsley.

Owsley County was Kentucky's 96th county.

Parts of Owsley County were used to form Jackson County in 1858 and Lee County in 1870.

The first settlers in Owsley County were John Renty Baker and John Abner.

In 1858, Owsley County lost some of its territory to Jackson County and in 1860 to Wolfe County.

In 1870, when Lee County was formed, again Owsley County lost some of its territory.

Even though Owsley County was formed only 19 years before the Civil War ( see Kentucky in the American Civil War ), it led all counties in the U. S. in the percentage of white population who enrolled in the Union Army.

Except for a handful who sided with the rebels, all who enlisted from Owsley County sympathized with the Union cause as did most of the citizens.

The county is named for William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ), the judge of the KY Court of Appeals and Governor of Kentucky ( 1844 – 48 ).

The story is told of an Owsley County man who later became Judge Brandenburg who was heard to remark “ I ’ m going out and shoot me a nigger !” and did.

Though deep mines in thin coal seams once provided jobs and income for local residents in the past, this is not the case in present-day Owsley County.

This phenomenon is not limited to Owsley County.

The Abraham Lincoln Relief Sculpture, locally known as ' Abe Lincoln Rock ' or ' Abraham Lincoln Rock ', is located just off Highway 846 in the Conkling community of Owsley County.

Painter continues to work heavily in the Nashville area as a studio musician, performing on albums by Carolyn Arends, Ben Folds Five, Fear of Pop, Owsley, Rich Creamy Paint ( Rich Painter, who is John Mark Painter's nephew ), Sixpence None the Richer, Gabe Dixon Band, Sevendust, Jon Foreman, Frally Folds and others.

Booneville is a city in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States.

It is the county seat of Owsley County.

Booneville is the county seat of Owsley County.

The band is said to have been named after a street brand of LSD and promoted by renowned LSD chemist and former Grateful Dead patron, Owsley Stanley.

In a BBC interview in 2000, Becker and Fagen revealed that " Kid Charlemagne " is loosely based on Augustus Owsley Stanley, the notorious drug " chef " who was famous for manufacturing hallucinogenic compounds, and that " Caves of Altamira " is about the loss of innocence, the narrative about a visitor to the Cave of Altamira who registers his astonishment at the prehistoric drawings.

Cow Creek is an unincorporated community in Owsley County, Kentucky, United States, southeast of the county seat of Booneville.

" Nothing but money will do it ," proclaimed Owsley, " and it is left to the appropriate department – the legislature – to determine on the expediency or inexpediency of raising it.

Owsley County, Kentucky is named in his honor.

The best known of these is undoubtedly Augustus Owsley Stanley III, usually known simply as Owsley.

Christopher James Priest ( born James Christopher Owsley June 30, 1961 ) is a writer of comic books who is at times credited simply as Priest.

It is named for the museum's founder Owsley Brown Frazier. The museum is an affiliate in the Smithsonian Affiliations program.

Though the county majority were Union sympathizers Owsley Countians, in general, had little regard for the life of a blacks.

Bands of lawless men ( many times claiming to be Union or Confederate — whichever served their goals ) rode into the county, and in reprisal, Owsley men led similar raids into Breathitt and Wolfe Counties.

The lowest elevation ( 650 ' +/- 10 ') appears to be at the point where the South Fork crosses the Owsley / Lee border on the north side of the county.

The town, consisting at the time of little more than a temporary log courthouse, became the county seat when Owsley County was formed on May 20, 1844.

* Owsley County, Kentucky, a county in Kentucky, United States

B. Gilbert, state representative from Owsley County cast the deciding vote in the general assembly as to whether or not Kentucky would remain with the Union.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Owsley County, Kentucky

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* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.

* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ) was an American politician and jurist who became the sixteenth Governor of Kentucky.

A few scenes from the movie A League of Their Own ( 1992 ) were shot in Henderson, including boarding house scenes filmed at 612 North Main St., once the home of Augustus Owsley Stanley, a governor of Kentucky and U. S. senator.

* Three Forks Regional Jail ( Multi-County Jail serving the central-east area of Kentucky including Powell County, Wolfe County, Owsley County, and Breathitt County.

Category: Populated places in Owsley County, Kentucky

Category: Protected areas of Owsley County, Kentucky

* Owsley County, Kentucky

Combs was born in Pebworth, Owsley County, Kentucky.

Category: People from Owsley County, Kentucky

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* William Owsley ( 1782 – 1862 ), Kentucky politician in the mid-19th century ; ancestor of Owsley / Bear

* Augustus Owsley Stanley ( 1867 – 1958 ), Kentucky politician ; campaigned against alcohol prohibition in the 1920s ; grandfather of Owsley / Bear