Lovely, KentuckyLovely is an unincorporated community located in Martin County, Kentucky, United States.HistoryA post office called Lovely has been in operation since 1931. Lovely was the name of the town's merchant, Samuel Dorsey Lovely. A folk etymology maintains the community was so named on account of the "lovely" scenery of the original town site.EducationLovely has a lending library, a branch of the Martin County Public Library.