Clay County's powerful White family traces their beginnings locally to Hugh White, who came to Clay County shortly after his brother, Colonel James, bought the Collins/Outlaw salt works in 1804. He had been in involved in the manufacture of salt near Abingdon, Virginia where the Whites had settled after leaving Pennsylvania. When the first court of the new county met on April 13, 1807, he was seated as an assistant circuit judge. Hugh and salt man John Amis and two other men donated 10 acres of land near the Tan Yard to establish a county seat which they named Greenville. The site, on present day Court House Hill, would in December that year be renamed Manchester.
In 1810 Hugh was appointed a brigadier general of the Kentucky Militia, and from that date on, he was known as General White. That year he built a two story house on Goose Creek, the main fork known as East Fork, or Kincaid Fork.
In 1810 Hugh was appointed a brigadier general of the Kentucky Militia, and from that date on, he was known as General White. That year he built a two story house on Goose Creek, the main fork known as East Fork, or Kincaid Fork.
Clay County's powerful White family traces their beginnings locally to Hugh White, who came to Clay County shortly after his brother, Colonel James, bought the Collins/Outlaw salt works in 1804. He had been in involved in the manufacture of salt near Abingdon, Virginia where the Whites had settled after leaving Pennsylvania. When the first court of the new county met on April 13, 1807, he was seated as an assistant circuit judge. Hugh and salt man John Amis and two other men donated 10 acres of land near the Tan Yard to establish a county seat which they named Greenville. The site, on present day Court House Hill, would in December that year be renamed Manchester.
In 1810 Hugh was appointed a brigadier general of the Kentucky Militia, and from that date on, he was known as General White. That year he built a two story house on Goose Creek, the main fork known as East Fork, or Kincaid Fork.
In 1810 Hugh was appointed a brigadier general of the Kentucky Militia, and from that date on, he was known as General White. That year he built a two story house on Goose Creek, the main fork known as East Fork, or Kincaid Fork.
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