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Known as McCool’s Creek Settlement, Ghent was laid off in 1809 on land of Samuel Sanders, whose father was here as early as 1795. Thirteen families came from Virginia in 1800. Traditionally, during a visit here about 1816, Henry Clay, a member of the commission that negotiated the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 1812, suggested the name Ghent in honor of the historic Belgian town.
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Ghent, Kentucky · United States
