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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Russell County, Kentucky.
The county was formed on December 14, 1825 and is named for William Russell, a Kentucky politician.
In 2015, the cities of Jamestown and Russell Springs became two of the first gigabit internet communities in Kentucky with the completion of a state-of-the-art optical fiber network by the local telephone cooperative.
Wolf Creek Dam is located in southern Russell County. The dam impounds Cumberland River to form Lake Cumberland, a major tourism attraction for the county. Wolf Creek National Fish Hatchery is also located in Russell County just below the dam.
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