Versailles (Kentucky)

Woodford County ( Kentucky)

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Versailles is a city in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is also the county seat of Woodford County.

At the last census in 2000 it had a population of 7,511.

History

Versailles was founded on 23 June 1792. The surface on which it was built, belonged at that time Hezekiah Briscoe, a child. The first mayor of Versailles, Marquis Calmes, named the city of admiration for General La Fayette after the French city of Versailles. The city was occupied briefly in each case both by the troops of the Confederate States and of the Northern states during the Civil War.

Economy and infrastructure

In the Bluegrass Region Versailles is known for horse breeding. Both English thoroughbred and American Standardbred be very successfully bred.

The surrounding area of the city is also today still dominated by farms.

The Woodford Reserve Distillery, a distillery in the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in Versailles is located.

In Versailles, parts of the films Elizabethtown and Dreamer - A dream turned true.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked on site

  • Martha Layne Collins ( b. 1936 ), Governor of Kentucky, worked as a teacher in Versailles
  • Brereton Jones ( b. 1939 ), Governor of Kentucky, lived as a horse breeder in Versailles
  • William Shatner ( born 1931 ), actor, lived as a horse breeder in Versailles
  • Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn (1838-1918), American politician, here opened a law practice
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