Tomahawk, Kentucky
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Tomahawk is an unincorporated community that stretches along Ky. 40 in Martin County, which is on the Kentucky-West Virginia border in Eastern Kentucky. It is located on Rockhouse Fork of Rockcastle Creek, about six miles west of Inez, the county seat. The post office was established as Wells on Aug. 20, 1886, and named for its first postmaster, Richard M. Wells, according to Kentucky Place Names by Richard M. Rennick. It was closed in 1894, but reopened on Nov. 4, 1898 as Tomahawk for The Tomahawk News, a newspaper then being published in Inez. It now has an estimated population of 1,000, based on voter registration in the Tomahawk precinct. The post office (41262) survived in 1975 when the Postal Service closed nearby offices in Milo and Davisport. The community still contains a volunteer fire department, a grocery, a convenience store,a car wash, a used car lot, a Jabez Ministries outlet, three churches, a Columbia Gas Co. pumping station and a large furniture store located in the old stone WPA-era Tomahawk Grade School, which was closed and sold in 2002 after the school was consolidated with Grassy Grade School into Eden Elementary School at [[Inez, Kentucky. Tomahawk has produced several locally prominent educators, journalists and business leaders, the best-known of whom was Russell Williamson, a banker, educator and high school basketball coach. Williamson was president of the Inez Deposit Bank, president of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association, the acknowledged first graduate of Morehead (Ky.) State University and the principal and basketball coach at Inez High School, which won two state championships during his tenure. Tomahawk became briefly notorious in 1932 after a local family ritually murdered their mother after a church revival under the mistaken belief they could bring her back to life in three days, The Floyd County (Ky.) Times reported.[citation needed] Newspaper articles concerning the event were published nationally and internationally.
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