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Monroe County is the only county of the 3,144 in the United States named for a President where the county seat is named for his vice-president. The county was formed in 1820; and named for James Monroe the fifth President, author of the Monroe Doctrine. [3] The county seat was named for Daniel Tompkins. They both served from 1817 to 1825.
The Monroe County Citizen, known simply as The Citizen, is a weekly newspaper in south-central Kentucky. Headquartered in Tompkinsville , the newspaper serves Monroe County , including Tompkinsville, Gamaliel , and Fountain Run .
The Carlisle County News: Bardwell: 1894 [14] Weekly Kentucky Publishing The Casey County News: Liberty: 1904 [15] Weekly Paxton Media Group: Central Kentucky News-Journal: Campbellsville: 1910 Paxton Media Group: The Citizen–Times: Scottsville: 1918 Weekly Robert Pitchford Created from merger between The Citizen (1908) and Allen County Times ...
Tompkinsville is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Monroe County, Kentucky, United States. [4] The population was 2,309 at the 2020 census. [2] The city was named after Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins who served under President James Monroe, for whom the county was named.
Student newspapers published in Kentucky (4 P) Pages in category "Newspapers published in Kentucky" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total.
The newspaper was founded in the 1960s by Aubrey C. and Dorothy Wilson as The Cave City Progress. The newspaper expanded its coverage area in the late 1970s, opening a news bureau in Glasgow and changing the name to The Barren County Progress. Editorial management of the newspaper passed on to A.C. Wilson Jr. at about that same time.
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Fountain Run is located at (36.721319, -85.961398) [17] in western Monroe County, near the point where Allen, Monroe, and Barren counties come together Kentucky Route 100 passes through the south side of the community, leading east 18 miles (29 km) to Tompkinsville, the county seat, and west 16 miles (26 km) to Scottsville.