Hardin County, KY

HARDIN COUNTY, situated toward the northerly part of Kentucky. Area, 1,200 square miles. Face of the country hilly and broken. Seat of justice, Elizabethtown. Pop. in 1810, 7,581; in 1820, 10,498; in 1830, 13,148; in 1840, 16,357; in 1850, 14,525. (Fanning's, 1853)
Place Unit Type
County
Containing Unit
Kentucky

Hardin County, Kentucky (Fanning's, 1853)

Gazetteer/Almanac
HARDIN COUNTY, situated toward the northerly part of Kentucky. Area, 1,200 square miles. Face of the country hilly and broken. Seat of justice, Elizabethtown. Pop. in 1810, 7,581; in 1820, 10,498; in 1830, 13,148; in 1840, 16,357; in 1850, 14,525.
Fanning's Illustrated Gazetteer of the United States.... (New York: Phelps, Fanning & Co., 1853), 149.
Date Type
Abraham Lincoln is born in Hardin County, Kentucky Personal
Birthplace of
Name Type
Elizabethtown, KY City or Town
Date Title
New York Times, “Explosion of a Locomotive,” January 2, 1857
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