Hindman, the county seat was named in honor of Lt. Gov. James Hindman. Originally, the town was known as Cornett's Mill during and prior to the Civil War because it was the homestead of Samuel Cornett. Samuel owned 500 acres of land and had a grist mill located below the forks of Troublesome, he died prior to the Civil War on 24 November 1860.  McPherson was its first known post office with Peyton Madison Duke, son-in-law of Samuel Cornett, as postmaster.

Before the Civil War, and probably a long time before, Hindman was known as Cornett's Mill as Samuel Cornett, an early Knott Settler had a mill located at the forks of Troublesome Creek. Sometimes what later would become Hindman would be referred to as the "Forks of Troublesome."

The 348 square miles known as Knott was formerly parts of these Kentucky counties: Clay (1807-1821), Fleming (1798-1800), Montgomery (1797-1800, Clark (1793-1797), Mason (1797-1798), Bourbon (1786-1789), and Madison Co., KY. Knott was once a part of these Virginia Counties: Fayette (1780-1772), Washington (1776-1780), Montgomery (1776-1780), Kentucky (1776-1780), Fincastle (1772-1776), Botetourt (1770-1772), Augusta (1734-1770), Spotsylvania (1721-1734), and Native American Territory.

Many of the our Knott's early families migrated down the Shenandoah Valley in VA, the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountain to NC and then, after the Rev War was over, migrated to KY, but lived for a while in Russell and Scott County, VA, and other Southeast VA counties on the west side of the Blue Ridge Mountains before moving thought Pound Gap to the "head of Kentucky." They would come in groups and sometimes these groups would number several hundred. I suggest visiting these Websites as many of their relatives stayed or went back later.