Young Park

Young Park is a park in Mercer, Kentucky. Young Park is situated nearby to the hamlet Riverview Estates, as well as near Stringtown.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Fort Harrod State Park and Beriah Magoffin Monument.

Old Fort Harrod State Park

Park

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Old Fort Harrod State Park is a park located in Harrodsburg, Kentucky in the United States. The park encompasses 15 acres and features a reconstruction of Fort Harrod, the first permanent American settlement in the state of Kentucky.

Beriah Magoffin Monument

Memorial

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The Beriah Magoffin Monument, in Spring Hill Cemetery of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, commemorates Beriah Magoffin, who was governor of Kentucky when the Civil War started.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harrodsburg and Burgin.

Harrodsburg

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Harrodsburg is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Mercer County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 9,064 at the 2020 census. Although Harrodsburg was formally established by the Virginia House of Burgesses after Boonesborough and was not incorporated by the Kentucky legislature until 1836, President Franklin D.

Burgin

Village

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Burgin is a home rule-class city in Mercer County, Kentucky, in the United States. Its population was 979 at the 2020 census. Burgin is situated 5 miles east of Young Park.

Young Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Mercer, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.75563° or 37° 45′ 20″ north

Longitude

-84.84801° or 84° 50′ 53″ west

Elevation

902 feet (275 metres)

Open location code

869QQ542+7Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 358610091

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4314186

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Highlights include Young Park and Ephraim McDowell James B. Haggin Hospital.

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