William Whitley's House

ID: 236
This file appears in: County Named, 1818

William Whitley's House. ca 1913.

Image Courtesy of Kentucky Historical Society

This file appears in: County Named, 1818

By Stuart Sanders
Historical Marker #1067 in Williamsburg commemorates Whitley County's namesake, Colonel William Whitley. Arguably one of Kentucky's hardest-fighting settlers, Whitley was born in Virginia in 1749. …