Tonieville, Kentucky

Tonieville is a small unincorporated community in LaRue County, Kentucky, United States, in the central part of the state.

[1] The community is part of the Elizabethtown, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area.

It is most notable as the birthplace of Carl Brashear, the first black U.S. Navy Master Diver.

"[2] While several men named Tony besides the two listed above have been put forward as having been the source of the name Tonieville, it was in fact almost certainly named after the town of Tonneville in Normandy.

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