Document Type: Community Names – By County
Publication Date: 11-30-2016
Abstract: Place names of Letcher County, Kentucky.
Recommended Citation: Rennick, Robert M., “Letcher County – Place Names” (2016). Robert M. Rennick Manuscript Collection. 94. https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/rennick_ms_collection/94
Original Work Provided at: “Letcher County – Place Names” by Robert M. Rennick (moreheadstate.edu)
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Re: Carcassonne. Any reference to Marie Campbell naming the school is false. The school began as the Carcassonne Community School in July 1924. Marie Campbell did not arrive there until 1926. She has written two books about the area, which are widely acknowledged by local residents of that time to be fiction loosely based on fact. Hendricks D Caudill, Sr. was a well-read man and has been quoted as having been influenced by a French folk-tale, “The Little Old Lady of Carcassonne,” and the poem “Carcassonne,” by French author Gustav Nadaud. The land around the school has several large rock cliffs, and Carcassonne, France is nicknamed, “The City of the Cliffs.”
There was a man I thank his last name was fields he decided to start a post office in the community. He had to come up with a name for the post office so he submitted his name the postal service notified him he could not use a person’s name. He was sitting on his porch pondering for a name. At that time a male goose (gander) walked by and he submitted GANDER for the name of the post office. Years later my gandpaw Hendricks caudill had the name changed to CARCASSONNE. named after carcassonne France (a city on a hill)