Harrodsburg
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,340 residents
- Description: city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, United States of America
- Also known as: “Harrod’s Town”, “Harrodsburg, Kentucky”, “Harrodsburg, KY”, “Harrodstown”, “Hogtown”, and “Old Town”
- Postal code: 40330
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.
Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg
Memorial
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The Confederate Monument in Harrodsburg, located at the entrance to Spring Hill Cemetery in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, is a statue listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Harrodsburg
- Categories: city in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Mercer, Bluegrass Region, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.7623° or 37° 45′ 44″ northLongitude
-84.8433° or 84° 50′ 36″ westPopulation
8,340Elevation
850 feet (259 metres)United Nations Location Code
US HBFOpen location code
869QQ564+WMOpenStreetMap ID
node 153877212OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Harrodsburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هارودسبورغ”
- Asturian: “Harrodsburg”
- Basque: “Harrodsburg”
- Catalan: “Harrodsburg”
- Cebuano: “Harrodsburg”
- Chechen: “Гарродсбург”
- Chinese: “Harrodsburg”
- Chinese: “哈洛兹柏格”
- Czech: “Harrodsburg”
- Dagbani: “Horrodsburg”
- Danish: “Harrodsburg”
- Dutch: “Harrodsburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هارودسبورج”
- French: “Harrodsburg”
- German: “Harrodsburg”
- Gilaki: “هارؤدزبرگ (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “هارؤدزبرگ”
- Haitian: “Harrodsburg, Kentucky”
- Haitian: “Harrodsburg”
- Hebrew: “הארודסבורג”
- Hungarian: “Harrodsburg”
- Ido: “Harrodsburg, Kentucky”
- Ido: “Harrodsburg”
- Irish: “Harrodsburg”
- Italian: “Harrodsburg”
- Japanese: “ハロッズバーグ”
- Kazakh: “Харродсбург”
- Kirghiz: “Харродсбург”
- Ladin: “Harrodsburg”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Harrodsburg”
- Mazanderani: “هارودسبورگ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Harrodsburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Harrodsburg”
- Norwegian: “Harrodsburg”
- Persian: “هارودسبورگ”
- Polish: “Harrodsburg”
- Portuguese: “Harrodsburg”
- Serbian: “Хародсбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Harrodsburg, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Harrodsburg”
- Slovak: “Harrodsburg”
- Slovenian: “Harrodsburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “هارودسبورق”
- Spanish: “Harrodsburg (Kentucky)”
- Spanish: “Harrodsburg”
- Swedish: “Harrodsburg”
- Tagalog: “Harrodsburg, Kentucky”
- Tagalog: “Harrodsburg”
- Tatar: “Гарродсбург”
- Turkish: “Harrodsburg, Kentucky”
- Turkish: “Harrodsburg”
- Ukrainian: “Гарродсбург”
- Uzbek: “Harrodsburg”
- Volapük: “Harrodsburg”
- Waray (Philippines): “Harrodsburg, Kentucky”
- Waray (Philippines): “Harrodsburg”
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