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The Downtown Paris Historic District, in Paris, Kentucky, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was deemed significant as: the largest, richest, most varied and best-preserved concentration of historic architecture in Bourbon County from the period c. 1788 to ...
Location of Bourbon County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bourbon County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Home to the family of famed Southern Belle Sallie Ward and Kentucky's Confederate Governor George Johnson. 71000352 White Hall: March 11, 1971: Richmond: Madison: 84001824 Anderson-Smith House: March 1, 1984: Paducah: McCracken: Serves as an official Kentucky Welcome Center and houses the furniture of Vice-President Alben Barkley. Also known as ...
Joseph Houston settled a station in the area in 1776, but was forced to relocate due to prior land grants. In 1786, Lawrence Protzman purchased the area of present-day Paris from its owners, platted 250 acres (100 ha) for a town, and offered land for public buildings in exchange for the Virginia legislature making the settlement the seat of the newly formed Bourbon County.
Bourbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,252. [1] Its county seat is Paris. [2] Bourbon County is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is one of Kentucky's nine original counties, and is best known for its historical association with bourbon ...
Courthouse Number 2 was completed in 1799, seven years after Kentucky became a state. The second courthouse was designed and built by John & Thomas Metcalfe. Thomas Metcalfe (Kentucky politician) was the 10th governor of Kentucky, but was also a particularly skilled stonemason, earning the name "Old Stonehammer". This courthouse was destroyed ...
This is a complete list of National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky. [1] There are 33 such landmarks in Kentucky; one landmark has had its designation withdrawn. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
Perry County, Kentucky: ca. 1789–1804 Residence Oldest house in eastern Kentucky Zachary Taylor House: Louisville, Kentucky: 1790 Residence Childhood home of President Zachary Taylor: Cane Ridge Meeting House: Cane Ridge, Kentucky: 1791 Church Likely oldest church building in Kentucky Historic Locust Grove: Louisville, Kentucky: 1792 Residence