This community has been variously known as Glens Fork, Glennsville or Glenville (not to be confused with Glenville in McLean County) and Hardscratch and was named for its location on Glens Fork of Russell Creek, which was in turn named after David Glenn, whose hunting party camped in the vicinity while securing supplies for George Rogers Clark's Illinois Campaigns. Glenn and another hunter, William Stewart, had a cabin here used to store meat for the Harrodstown settlers as early as the fall of 1777. David Glenn was one of Harrod's company of Kentucky Pioneers who founded Harrodsburg in 1774.