Town Spring
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Near the site of this spring Somerset was established as the county seat in 1801 on forty acres given by William Dodson. The path to it became the town's most traveled street in order to drink from the Old Town Spring. Thus a saying became popular, "Whoever drinks from the Old Town Spring will have wisdom and will always return to Somerset." Over.
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Pulaski County, 1799 As Kentucky's 27th county, its territory was taken from Lincoln and Green counties and named for Count Casimir Pulaski, a Polish patriot and soldier, who came to America when he learned of the Colonies' fight for freedom. A brigadier general in Revolution, he gave his life to the cause of America, Oct. 11, 1779. Counties in seven states are named for him.
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