Eugenia Dunlap Potts, daughter of George Dunlap, a US Congressman and lawyer, was born in Garrard County in 1840, pursued her literary career there, and died there in 1912. The first of her nine works was "Song of Lancaster," a metrical history in the style of Longfellow's "Hiawatha." In 1892, she became editor of "Illustrated Kentuckian."