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The Elizabethtown Courthouse Square and Commercial District, in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, is a 10 acres (4.0 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The listing included 38 contributing buildings. [1] It includes the Hardin County Courthouse, built in 1933 in Georgian Revival style.
Keeneland Sales is an American Thoroughbred auction house in Lexington, Kentucky founded in 1935 as a nonprofit racing/auction entity on 147 acres (0.59 km 2) of farmland west of Lexington, which had been owned by Jack O. Keene. A division of Keeneland Association, Inc., it holds three annual horse auctions that attract buyers from around the ...
Westbound Bluegrass Parkway near Bardstown. In 2003, the road was renamed in honor of Martha Layne Collins, the first female governor of Kentucky. Previously, it was the Kentucky Bluegrass parkway (and signed as "KB Parkway"), then later renamed the "Blue Grass Parkway" (sometimes with "Bluegrass" as one word, though in the highway's name, it was officially two words), and often called the "BG ...
Before TD Collins died in 1914, he owned, along with others, a large number of sawmills in the Tionesta Valley of Pennsylvania, over 60,000 acres (240 km 2) of timberland, the Tionesta Manufacturing Company, the Nebraska Box Mill, the Mayburg Chemical Plant, plus over 100 miles (160 km) of logging railroad, 41 miles (66 km) of main line, 25 locomotives, several oil companies, and a bank.
The Hardin County section, a state secondary highway, extends 7.981 miles (12.844 km) from U.S. Route 31W (US 31W) in Elizabethtown north to KY 313 on the southern edge of Fort Knox. [3] The 3.058-mile-long (4.921 km) Bullitt County segment is a rural secondary highway that runs from a dead end on the eastern edge of Fort Knox east to KY 61 at ...
Central Hardin High School is a school located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States. [2] Although the school is within the city limits, it is served by the post office of the community of Cecilia, much of which has recently been annexed by Elizabethtown. [when?] It is one of three county high schools in the Hardin County School System. The ...
[3] [4] Collins submitted his ambitious plan to operate a weekly service on the route with five ships superior to those of Cunard in every way. [citation needed] Collins' proposal convinced the authorities and the tender was awarded to his New York and Liverpool United States Steamship Company, commonly known as the Collins Line. Due to the ...
Helm Place is a white-columned, brick mansion built by John LaRue Helm in the 1830s, about one and a half miles north of the center of Elizabethtown, Kentucky. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] In 1831, John LaRue Helm purchased the old homestead of his grandfather, Captain Thomas Helm, from his uncle ...