Bullitt County, KY Summer Camps

About Bullitt County, KY

Bullitt County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky located in the far western Bluegrass region known as the Knobs , with an area of 300 square miles . The population was 74,319 in the 2010 Census. Just south of the city of Louisville , part of the Louisville metropolitan area commonly known as Kentuckiana , the county is home to several commuter towns including the cities of Hillview , Lebanon Junction , Mount Washington and Shepherdsville - the county seat . The western fifth of the county ) is reserved for military training as part of the United States Army post of Fort Knox .

History of Bullitt County, KY

The first inhabitants of the land that would become Bullitt County were the Paleo-Indians who entered North America approximately 11,500 to 10,000 years BP . These people, whose ancestors can be traced back to Central Asia, were nomadic, hunters and gatherers whose remains have been discovered near the area's mineral springs or salt licks where big game such as the mammoth , bison and ground sloth once gathered. Native Americans , including the Shawnee people who probably considered this region part of their homeland and certainly valued it as a hunting ground, were their descendants. European colonization of the Americas led to competing claims to the lands west of the Appalachians and east of the Mississippi river with France ultimately ceding control to Britain at the end of the French and Indian War in 1763. Veterans of the war were promised land and in 1773 Captain Thomas Bullitt was sent on a surveying expedition of the area around the Falls of the Ohio by the governor of Virginia. During his explorations of the land that would become Bullitt County, he came upon an unusually large salt lick subsequently named after him: Bullitt's Lick . Bullitt's Lick became an important saltwork to the region - supplying salt by pack train and flatboat as far off as Illinois. In fact, the Bullitt's Lick saltwork was Kentucky's first industry and in production until around 1830, when the steamboat and importation brought access to less expensive sources of salt. The first settlement of the area and the first station on the Wilderness Road between Harrodsburg and the Falls of the Ohio was a fort called Brashear's Station or the Salt River Garrison, built in 1779 at the mouth of Floyd's Fork . Shepherdsville, named after Adam Shepherd - a prosperous business man who purchased the land near the Falls of Salt River in 1793, is the oldest town and became the county seat.

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