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Harrodsburg Downtown Harrodsburg, Ky.

Harrodsburg

Kentucky, United States
Also known as: Harrodstown
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Harrodsburg, city, seat of Mercer county, central Kentucky, U.S., near the Salt River, in the Bluegrass region, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Lexington. The oldest permanent settlement west of the Alleghenies, it was founded in 1774 on the Wilderness Road as Harrodstown (later Oldtown, then Harrodsburg) by James Harrod and his pioneer group. A replica of the original fort (1776) where frontiersman Daniel Boone once lived is in nearby Old Fort Harrod State Park;...

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