Buchanan, Kentucky

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Coordinates: 38°14′38″N 82°36′39″W / 38.24389°N 82.61083°W / 38.24389; -82.61083
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Buchanan, Kentucky
Unincorporated community
Buchanan is located in Kentucky
Buchanan
Buchanan
Location in Kentucky
Buchanan is located in the United States
Buchanan
Buchanan
Location in the United States
Coordinates: 38°14′38″N 82°36′39″W / 38.24389°N 82.61083°W / 38.24389; -82.61083[1]
CountryUnited States
StateKentucky
CountyLawrence
Elevation
531 ft (162 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS feature IDs2337450,[2]488179[1]

Buchanan, originally named Mouth of Bear (38°14′36″N 82°36′33″W / 38.24333°N 82.60917°W / 38.24333; -82.60917 (Mouth of Bear)[2]), is an unincorporated community located in Lawrence County, Kentucky, United States at the mouth of Bear Creek where it joins the Big Sandy River, five miles downstream from the mouth of Blaine Creek.[3]

Its post office was established on 1830-01-14 by county surveyor Reuben Canterbury (alternatively spelled Canterberry), named Canterbury after himself.[3] It was later renamed Turman's Ferry in March 1838, by new postmaster and ferryman Benjamin Turman.[3] It was known as Round Bottom when it was relocated across the river (and state line) to Prichard, West Virginia in June 1853, and then as Buchanan (after then postmaster George Buchanan) when it was relocated back on the creek mouth side of the river in September 1861.[3]

It gained a railway station on the Chattaroi Railroad in 1880, named Rockville (38°14′38″N 82°36′33″W / 38.24389°N 82.60917°W / 38.24389; -82.60917 (Rockville Railroad Station)[4][5]), after some literal rocks that were 100 yards (91 m) north of the creek mouth and south of the railway depot.[3] But in 1891 the railway station and the community were both (re)named Buchanan after the post office.[3] By that time, the community itself comprised several lumber and livestock operations, a hotel, a flour mill, a wagonworks, and some stores.[3]

The post office closed in 1976, having been a rural branch of the Louisa, Kentucky post office since August 1863.

Cross-reference[edit]

  1. ^ a b Buchanan_USGS.
  2. ^ a b Mouth_of_Bear_USGS.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g Rennick 2000, p. 5.
  4. ^ Rockville_Railroad_Station_(historical)_USGS.
  5. ^ Rockville_(historical)_USGS.

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