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Bardstown

Bardstown is a city in the , located 40 miles southeast of . It is the county seat of Nelson County. It calls itself "The Most Beautiful Small Town in America" and it's certainly at least a contender.
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  • Type: Town with 11,100 residents
  • Description: city in Kentucky, United States
  • Also known as: “Bairdstown”, “Bards Town”, “Bardstown, Kentucky”, “Bardstown, KY”, “Beardstown”, “Salem”, and “Salem Town”
  • Postal code: 40004

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral and Civil War Museum.

Church
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral is a Catholic parish church at 310 West Stephen Foster Avenue in Bardstown, Kentucky. It is the original cathedral of the present Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville, originally erected as the Diocese of Bardstown — "proto-cathedral" means the original cathedral of a see that has transferred or moved.

Museum
Photo: Bedford, Public domain.
The in Bardstown, Kentucky, is a collection of five attractions along what is called "Museum Row". It was established in 1996 by Dr. Henry Spalding.

Museum
Photo: Bedford, Public domain.
The Oscar Getz Museum of Bourbon History is a museum in Bardstown, Kentucky, that chronicles the history of American whiskey from Colonial days through the 1960s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nazareth.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community and a historic site in , , , located about three miles north of Bardstown. The zipcode is: 40048. is situated 2½ miles north of Bardstown.

Bardstown

Latitude
37.8092° or 37° 48′ 33″ north
Longitude
-85.4669° or 85° 28′ 1″ west
Population
11,100
Elevation
646 feet (197 metres)
IATA airport code
BRY
United Nations Location Code
US XCV
Open location code
869PRG5M+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153524816
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4283133
Wiki­data ID
Q1063053
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Bardstown” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باردستاون”
  • Basque: “Bardstown”
  • Bosnian: “Bardstown”
  • Catalan: “Bardstown”
  • Cebuano: “Bardstown”
  • Chechen: “Бардстаун”
  • Chinese: “Bardstown”
  • Chinese: “巴兹敦”
  • Chinese: “巴茲敦”
  • Czech: “Bardstown”
  • Dagbani: “Bardstown”
  • Danish: “Bardstown”
  • Dutch: “Bardstown”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باردستاون”
  • Esperanto: “Bardstown”
  • French: “Bardstown”
  • German: “Bardstown”
  • Gilaki: “باردس‌تاؤن (کنتاکي)”
  • Gilaki: “باردس‌تاؤن”
  • Greek: “Μπάρντστοουν”
  • Haitian: “Bardstown, Kentucky”
  • Haitian: “Bardstown”
  • Hebrew: “בארדסטון (קנטקי)”
  • Hebrew: “בארדסטון, קנטקי, ארצות הברית”
  • Hebrew: “בארדסטון, קנטקי”
  • Hungarian: “Bardstown”
  • Ido: “Bardstown, Kentucky”
  • Ido: “Bardstown”
  • Irish: “Bardstown”
  • Italian: “Bardstown”
  • Japanese: “バーズタウン”
  • Kazakh: “Bardstown”
  • Kazakh: “Бардстоун”
  • Kazakh: “باردستوۋن”
  • Kirghiz: “Бардстоун”
  • Korean: “바드스타운”
  • Ladin: “Bardstown”
  • Mazanderani: “بارداستاون”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bardstown”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bardstown”
  • Norwegian: “Bardstown”
  • Persian: “بارداستاون، کنتاکی”
  • Persian: “بارداستاون”
  • Polish: “Bardstown”
  • Portuguese: “Bardstown”
  • Russian: “Бардстаун”
  • Russian: “Бардстоун”
  • Serbian: “Бардстаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bardstown, Kentucky”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bardstown”
  • Slovak: “Bardstown”
  • Slovenian: “Bardstown”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بارداستاون، کنتاکی”
  • Spanish: “Bardstown (Kentucky)”
  • Spanish: “Bardstown”
  • Swedish: “Bardstown”
  • Tatar: “Бардстаун”
  • Turkish: “Bardstown, Kentucky”
  • Turkish: “Bardstown”
  • Ukrainian: “Бардстаун”
  • Uzbek: “Bardstown”
  • Uzbek: “Бардстоwн”
  • Volapük: “Bardstown”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bardstown, Kentucky”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bardstown”

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