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==History== The [[Indigenous peoples|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 [[Before Present|BP]]. These people, whose ancestors can be traced back to Eastern and Central Asia, were nomadic. They were hunters and gatherers whose remains have been discovered near the area's mineral springs or [[salt licks]], where big game such as the [[mammoth]], [[American Bison|bison]] and [[ground sloth]] once gathered. [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] were their descendants, including the [[Shawnee]] people, who probably considered this region part of their homeland and certainly valued it as a hunting ground. <ref>{{cite book | editor-last = Lewsi | editor-first = R. Barry | last = Tankersley | first = Kenneth B. | title = Kentucky Archeology | chapter = Ice Age Hunters And Gatherers | publisher = The University Press of Kentucky | year = 1996 | isbn = 0-8131-1907-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Clark | first = Jerry E. | title = The Shawnee | publisher = The University Press of Kentucky | year = 1993 | isbn = 0-8131-1839-5 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/shawnee00clar }}</ref> Both France and Britain had traders and colonists who encountered the Shawnee. [[European colonization of the Americas]] led to competing claims between those nations to the lands west of the Appalachians and east of the Mississippi River. After suffering defeat by Great Britain in the [[Seven Years' War]] (known as the [[French and Indian War]] in its North American front), France ceded control in 1763 of its claimed territories. For thousands of years before the county's formation, nutrient-rich [[salt licks]] attracted large herds of [[bison]] and other [[game (food)|game]] to the area. [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribes made it their hunting grounds, as did the 18th century [[longhunter]]. In 1773, after the [[French and Indian War]], the Virginia governor sent Captain [[Thomas Bullitt]] (uncle to Alexander Scott Bullitt) into the area to survey for [[land grants]]. The most historic of the county's salt licks, [[Bullitt's Lick]], is named after him. As the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] led to widespread salt shortages, the Lick became the site of Kentucky's first industry, attracting many settlers to the area.<ref>Pack, Tom. ''History of Bullitt County''. Bullitt County Historical Commission, 1974, pp. 3β6.</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Clark | first = Thomas D. | title = A History of Kentucky | chapter = England Moves West | publisher = The John Bradford Press | year = 1954}}</ref> Colonial veterans of the war were promised land in what was later called Kentucky. Bullitt's Lick became an important saltwork to the region; its salt was harvested and sent by pack train and [[flatboat]] as far off as Illinois to the west. The Bullitt's Lick saltwork was Kentucky's first industry and in production until around 1830. By that time, the [[steamboat]] and importing of salt brought access to less expensive sources. The first settlement of the area was also the first station on the [[Wilderness Road]] between [[Harrodsburg]] and the Falls of the Ohio. It was a fort called Brashear's Station or the [[Salt River (Kentucky)|Salt River]] Garrison, built in 1779 at the mouth of [[Floyd's Fork]]. Most of the county was settled after the [[American Revolutionary War]]. 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. In December 1796<ref name="KYEnc"/> the county of Bullitt, named after Thomas Bullitt's nephew and Kentucky's first Lieutenant Governor [[Alexander Scott Bullitt]],<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ | title=The Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, Volume 1 | publisher=Kentucky State Historical Society | year=1903 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ/page/n115 34]}}</ref> was organized from land taken from [[Jefferson County, Kentucky|Jefferson]] and [[Nelson County, Kentucky|Nelson]] counties through an act approved on December 13, 1796, by the [[Kentucky General Assembly]]. In 1811, the northwestern area of the county expanded to include land given by Jefferson County. In 1824, an eastern area of the county was given to help form [[Spencer County, Kentucky|Spencer County]].<ref name="Bullitt County History Museum">{{cite web |last=Hartley |first=Charles |title=The Creation of Bullitt County |publisher=The Bullitt County History Museum |date=December 29, 2010 |url=http://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/bccreation.html |access-date=September 4, 2007 |archive-date=August 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812231524/http://bullittcountyhistory.org/bchistory/bccreation.html |url-status=live }}</ref> {{cquote|BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That from and after the first day of January next, all that part of the counties of Jefferson and Nelson included in the following bounds.. shall be one distinct county and called and known by the name of Bullitt. |||Kentucky General Assembly|''December 13, 1796''}}
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