Owingsville: a town named on a wager

Within fifteen years he had amassed a good deal of wealth and land. Owings and Colonel Richard H. Menefee each owned large parcels of the ground where the town would stand, and, as the story is told, the two men wagered that whoever built the finer home the quickest would give the community his name.

Owings won, and Owingsville was founded in 1811, the year Bath County was formed. It is the county seat, set roughly at the center of the county where US 60 meets KY 36. The map pin marks the town.