Pettit, Kentucky

Pettit is an unincorporated community in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States, named for Thomas S. Pettit, the long-time publisher of The Monitor (now the Messenger-Inquirer), who helped clear and improve the land that the community now occupies.^[2]

• Connelley, William Elsey; Ellis Merton Coulter (1922). History of Kentucky. American Historical Society.