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Elizabethtown Kentucky & Hardin County Area History

Surrounded By Some Of The State's Richest Historic Landmarks
  Elizabethtown Kentucky Located In Hardin County Kentucky

Hardin County was established in 1793 and named
for Colonel John Hardin. In 1793, Colonel Hynes had 30 acres surveyed and laid out to establish Elizabethtown. Named in honor of the wife of Andrew Hynes, Elizabethtown was legally established on July 4, 1797. The city itself encompasses 25 sq miles of the 616
sq miles that make up Hardin County.
    
Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham Lincoln practiced carpentry in the area, married Nancy Hanks here in 1806. John James Audubon, an early merchant of Elizabethtown, later became distinguished as a great ornithologist and illustrator.
   
General George Armstrong Custer and his wife took summer walks along the tree-lined streets. These historic names are only a few of many.
  
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad was built in Elizabethtown in 1854. The community became one of the most important stops along the railroad and a strategic point during the Civil War.
  

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From 1871 to 1873, the Seventh Cavalry and a battalion of the Fourth Infantry led by General George Custer were stationed in Elizabethtown.
     
Brown Pusey House, built in 1825, is one of Elizabethtown's finest examples of rural Federal architecture. Known for many years as "The Hill House," a boarding house and inn, it once housed General George Custer and his wife in the 1870s. The house was presented to Elizabethtown for a Community House in 1923.
   
One-Room School House, originally built in Summit, KY, in 1892, was considered the finest school in Hardin County. The school closed in 1953, but in 1978 several local groups interested in its preservation, had the school relocated to Freeman Lake Park, where it was renovated and rededicated.
 
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