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Place Name
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Bardstown
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Place Status (Type)
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town
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Capital Of
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Nelson County
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Population
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6,801 (1990)
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Location
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Nelson County, Kentucky (KY), United States, North America
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Latitude
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37°48'N
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Longitude
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85°27'W
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Bardstown
, town (1990 pop. 6,801),  Nelson co., central
Ky., SE of Louisville; 37°48'N 85°27'W. Elev.
647 ft/197 m. In a rich farm area (burley
tobacco, grain, soybeans; livestock; dairying). The city is known for
its distilleries, thus its nickname “Bourbon Capital of the World.”
RR spur terminus. Mfg. (consumer goods, beverages, furniture, bldg.
materials, electrical equip., metal fabrication, plastics, printing and
publishing). A monument to Amer. steamboat inventor (1791) John Fitch
is in Bardstown. My Old Kentucky Home State Park.,
1 mi/1.6 km to E, has “Federal Hill,” home
of Judge John Rowan (built c.1818), where his cousin Stephen Foster was
inspired to write the song “My Old Kentucky Home” in 1952; Bernheim
Arboretum and Research Forest to NW. Of note are the Cathedral of St.
Joseph (1816-1819), whose paintings were given by Louis Philippe of
France, and the Gethsemani Farms Trappist monastery (1848) to SW. The
Barton Mus. of Whiskey History is a short distance away, distillery
tours, to S. In the Civil War, Bardstown was occupied (Sept. 1862) by
Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate army. Settled 1775, inc. 1780.
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