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Bardstown (Ky.)

LC control no.n 81089809
Geographic headingBardstown (Ky.)
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Geographic subdivision usageKentucky--Bardstown
Variant(s)Bardstown, Ky.
See alsoBaird's Town (Ky.)
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Found inSpalding, M. Biography of a Kentucky town, 1942 (first settlement was made in 1780 called Salem; when William Bard, in the name of his brother David, granted two acres of ground for the erection of public buildings, Sept. 30, 1785, town was renamed for its benefactor and called Baird's Town; town was incorp. in 1788 as Bardstown)
NUCMC data from Library of Congress, Manuscript Div. for Reid, S.C. Family papers, 1807-1963 (Bardstown, Ky.)
GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 37°48ʹ33ʺN 085°28ʹ01ʺW)