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Whitley County, Kentucky

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36.7434

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-84.1597

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"Whitley County, Kentucky" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/P00002893, (accessed April 29, 2025).

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County in southeastern Kentucky. Seat at Williamsburg, also known as Whitley Court House. Located on the Cumberland River.

Ron D. Bryant, "Whitley County" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 949-50.
"Williamsburg, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed September 3, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/.

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