Sorgho, Kentucky, originally named and known as Sorghotown, the boundaries of this

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

were described in an order dated 12 May 1874, by

Daviess County, Kentucky Daviess County ( "Davis"), is a County (United States), county in Kentucky. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 103,312. Its county seat is Owensboro, Kentucky, Owensboro. The county was formed from part of Ohio ...

Judge Triplett, worded as follows: " Upon the application of ten voters to be effected by the change hereinafter specified; and it appearing to the

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right and proper that said change should be made; and further that the requirements of the law as to notice before application has been complied with, – it is therefore ordered that an additional voting precinct be and the same is hereby established in Daviess County (Kentucky), in District No. 1, to be called and known as 'Sorghotown Voting Place'...." The community was named for the Daviess County Sorgho Sugar Company which was formed there in 1868–'69 by Dr. J. Q. A. Stewart, J. Balee and E. Guthrie. that organized there in the winter of 1868–69 for the manufacturing of sorghum sugar. Once the factory was established the community began to develop.History of Daviess County, Kentucky 1883, pp. 776, published by Interstate Publishing Co., Chicago,

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, 1883.

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