Clark County or George Rogers Clark???

[Hoops Yoda]

What is the true name of the school? On their uniforms last night it said Clark County, but the official name seems to be GRC... Is the county named after the same person? Is it a coincidence? I'd like to hear the history if someone knows.

[fastpitchfan]

In the 1950 or 60s there were two schools

 

Winchester High and Clark County

 

The two merged and became George Rogers Clark High School, however most people still knew them as Clark County (probably from their success in basketball when Letcher Norton won the state in 1951).

 

It is also a mouthful to say George Rogers Clark when you could just say Clark, plus the idea of saying the county allows people to recognize where they are from.

 

Hope this helps.

[ladiesbballcoach]

For information and educational sake.....

 

http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/Ihb/resources/grcbio.html

Despite the British rules and laws against settlement west of the Allegheny Mountains, many young men in Virginia were crossing over to Kentucky in quest of land and adventure. In 1772, just turning 20 years of age, Clark left on a surveying trip to the West. During the next four years, he located land for himself, his family and other friends in Virginia and acted as a guide for settlers. He participated in Lord Dunmore's War and gained recognition as a formidable Indian fighter.

 

Increased Indian harassment of the Kentucky settlers led Clark to call a meeting of representatives from all the forts at Harrodsburg, KY in June 1776. He and another delegate were elected to go to Virginia to seek a more definite connection between Kentucky and Virginia. They wanted recognition and protection as a county, and failing this, Clark advocated a separate state. Gov. Patrick Henry and the Executive Council granted him 500 pounds of gunpowder for the defense of Kentucky, and the General Assembly made Kentucky a county of Virginia.

 

The fact that the Kentucky settlers entrusted Clark with such great responsibility at the age of 24, and that he was sufficiently persuasive to bring the General Assembly and a number of important men around to his way of thinking was indicative of his personal charisma, speaking abilities, leadership and qualities of mind. He was well over six feet tall, had red hair and was reliably reported to have been rugged and handsome. The fear and respect which he inspired in his Indian enemies indicated that he was a formidable warrior. Contemporary records show that he enjoyed an unusual rapport with his men, inspiring them to believe that they were unbeatable and firing them with an eagerness for battle. Even after he had lost favor in the East, he was still the leader of choice on the frontier among the men who knew his abilities best. He was also a leader in setting up the forms of government on the frontier, and whenever possible he used diplomacy and bluff rather than battle in dealing with the Indians. When he retired to Clarksville in later life, the Indian chiefs and warriors still came to smoke the pipe of peace and friendship with their conqueror, calling him "the first man living, the great and invincible long-knife."

 

In the year of the "Bloody '77s" Clark returned the gunpowder to Kentucky settlements. The settlements were attacked continually and had difficulty planting or harvesting crops to sustain them through the coming winter. Clark learned that the "hair buyer" Lt. Gov. Henry Hamilton was paying the Indians for prisoners and scalps in Detroit and supplying them from posts in the Illinois country. After receiving reports from two spies he had sent to the Illinois country, Clark returned to Virginia to outline a plan of attack to Governor Henry. He received authority from the General Assembly to raise a force for the defense of Kentucky and a commission as Lieutenant Colonel over a force of seven companies with 50 men each. Secretly, Henry gave him written orders to attack Kaskaskia and posts in the Illinois Country.

 

 

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He lived thereafter at Locust Grove, eight miles from Louisville, KY, with his sister Lucy and her husband, Maj. William Croghan, until he suffered a third stroke and died at the age of 66 on February 13, 1818. His body was moved from the family plot to Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville in 1869.

[crimedoc]

Man you people are too in depth for me.

[bellalumni40]

In the 1950 or 60s there were two schools

 

Winchester High and Clark County

 

The two merged and became George Rogers Clark High School, however most people still knew them as Clark County (probably from their success in basketball when Letcher Norton won the state in 1951).

 

It is also a mouthful to say George Rogers Clark when you could just say Clark, plus the idea of saying the county allows people to recognize where they are from.

 

Hope this helps.

Say GRC. That is also how I know them. I can recognize either though.