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- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: New Market, Kentucky
- ↑ "Marion County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 22, 2015.
- ↑ Collins, Lewis (1877). History of Kentucky. p. 538.
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