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Named for early settlers Alexander Catlett and his son Horatio, early Catlettsburg flour-
ished as a steamboat landing and market city for timber felled on the hillsides and floated
down the Big Sandy River to the Ohio River. But by the 1930s, nearby Ashland had long
since eclipsed it as the county's largest city and center of commerce. This 1937 photograph
shows a flooded Division Street in Catlettsburg. (Courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.)
