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Harrodsburg is a home rule-class city in Mercer County, Kentucky, United States.It is the seat of its county. [4] The population was 9,064 at the 2020 census.. Although Harrodsburg was formally established by the Virginia House of Burgesses after Boonesborough and was not incorporated by the Kentucky legislature until 1836, [5] it was honored by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as the oldest ...
As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,772. [1] Its county seat is Harrodsburg. [2] The county was formed from Lincoln County, Virginia in 1785 [3] and is named for Revolutionary War General Hugh Mercer, who was killed at the Battle of Princeton in 1777. [4] It was formerly a prohibition or dry county.
Title Locale Year est. Ceased Notes The Adair County News: Big Sandy News: Louisa: 1885 1929 [97]The Citizen Voice & Times: Irvine: 1976 2022 [98]: Created from merger of The Estill County Citizen Voice (1973) and The Irvine Times–Herald (1968) [99]
Kentucky population density by census tract (2010), showing the concentration of settlement around Jefferson, Fayette and Kenton counties. The two-class system went into effect on January 1, 2015, following the 2014 passage of House Bill 331 by the Kentucky General Assembly and the bill's signing into law by Governor Steve Beshear.
Kentucky population density map. As of the 2010 census, the United States Commonwealth of Kentucky had an estimated population of 4,339,367, which is an increase of 297,174, or 7.4%, since the year 2000. Approximately 4.4% of Kentucky's population was foreign-born as of 2010. The population density of the state is 107.4 people per square mile. [3]
Boonesborough, 25 miles to the east, was founded by Daniel Boone in 1775. Lexington, 28 miles to the north, was founded in 1775. Stanford, originally known as St. Asaph, is 10 miles south of Lancaster. It too was founded in 1775. The oldest permanent settlement in Kentucky, Harrodsburg, was founded in 1774 and is 18 miles to the west.
This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Kentucky.It includes the year in which the women were admitted to practice law (in parentheses). Also included are women who achieved other distinctions such becoming the first in their state to graduate from law school or become a political figure.
McEuen, Melissa A. et al. eds. Kentucky Women: Their Lives and Times (U of Georgia Press, 2015) online review; Potter, Eugenia K. (1997). Kentucky Women: Two Centuries of Indomitable Spirit and Vision. Kentucky: Big Tree Press. ISBN 0965985806. Theriot, Janice (1994). Tradition of Service: A History of the Kentucky Federation of Women's Clubs ...