GRAYSON COUNTY, was formed in 1810, from Hardin and Ohio Counties, and is bounded on the north by Hardin and Breckinridge, on the east by Hart, on the south by Edmonson, and on the west by Ohio and Butler.  It was named in honor of Col. William Grayson, a Virginian, and a distinguished politician and statesman.  The county is well drained by the following watercourses:  Rough Creek, Big and Little Clifty, Nolin, Rock, Caney, Bear and Short Creeks.   Fine timber is abundant, and has become a source of considerable commercial enterprise.  The land is mostly thin, the soil of a poor quality, and the country of a rather level surface.  Coal has been found plentifully in certain sections; also iron ore.  Tobacco and grain are the principal agricultural products, the last census (1880) showing the following:  Corn, 597,346 bushels; oats, 82,531; wheat, 64,545, and tobacco, 1,065,244 pounds.  The Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad passes through the county, and since its construction has benefited the county very materially.

                Leitchfield, the capital of the county is situated on the railroad above mentioned, seventy-five miles from Louisville, and is a thriving and enterprising place of about 500 inhabitants.  It was named for Maj. David Leitch, a liberal and go-ahead kind of a man, who was the patentee of the land on which it stands, and donated the site to the town.  It has quite a handsome court house, several churches, good schools, a newspaper, and the usual supply of lawyers and doctors.  The other villages are Millerstown, on Nolin Creek, and Caneyville, on the Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Railroad; the latter is quite a prosperous village.

                Among the curiosities and wonders of nature are sulphur springs, foot-prints, etc.  In the solid limestone rock, some five miles from Leitchfield, human foot-prints were found as perfectly formed as if recently made in clay.  These tracks no doubt appeared as wonderful to the first white settlers of Grayson as the human foot-prints did to Crusoe, when discovered upon his lonely island.  The following published story savors somewhat of Mulhatton romance:  “On the slope of a hill twelve miles from Leitchfield, are to be seen in the solid rock, two inches deep, the hoof or foot tracks of horses, mules and colts, some of them shod; they showed that some of the animals were walking, others running; in size some were six inches across.  In stripping off the earth on which the timber is growing, these tracks can be seen covering acres of ground.”