Editing Harrodsburg, Kentucky (section)

==History==
===18th century===
Harrodstown (originally called ''Harrod's Town'') was laid out and founded by [[James Harrod]] on June 16, 1774.<ref name=ren>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&pg=PA132 | title=Kentucky Place Names | publisher=University Press of Kentucky | year=1987 | access-date=28 April 2013 | author=Rennick, Robert M. | pages=132| isbn=0813126312 }}</ref><ref name=EB1911>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Harrodsburg |volume=13 |page=27}}</ref> Harrod led a company of adventurers totaling 31 men, beginning in the spring of 1774 at [[Redstone Old Fort|Fort Redstone]] in Pennsylvania<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=Lowell H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FdTIIEZ1k2QC&dq=james+harrod+fort+redstone+company&pg=PA25 |title=A New History of Kentucky |last2=Klotter |first2=James C. |date=1997-03-27 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-2621-0 |language=en}}</ref> down the [[Monongahela River|Monongahela]] and [[Ohio River|Ohio]] Rivers in canoes and through a series of other rivers and creeks to the town's present-day location.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WRxEAQAAMAAJ|title=Collins' Historical Sketches of Kentucky|last1=Collins|first1=Lewis|date=1877|publisher=Richard H. Collins|pages=517, 624}}</ref>

Later that same year, amid [[Dunmore's War]], [[John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore|Lord Dunmore]] sent two men to warn the surveyors of imminent [[Shawnee]] attacks, [[Daniel Boone]] and Michael Stoner, who are said to have completed the round trip of 800 miles in 61 days.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Charleston |first1=Max |date=September 1929 |title=The Oldest Town in Kentucky |url=http://www.merceronline.com/history.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322180749/https://merceronline.com/history.htm |archive-date=March 22, 2016 |access-date=May 3, 2023 |website=Mercer Online}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Collins |first=Robert F. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2eoTAAAAYAAJ&q=A+HISTORY+OF+THE+DANIEL+BOONE+NATIONAL+FOREST |title=A History of the Daniel Boone National Forest, 1770-1970 |publisher=U.S.D.A. Forest Service, [Southern Region] |year=1975 |location=Lexington, KY |pages=38 |language=en}}</ref> Regardless, the pioneers remained for a few weeks until a man was killed by the natives, when the settlement was abandoned and resettled the following year by March. It was one of three settlements in present-day Kentucky at the time the [[Thirteen Colonies]] [[United States Declaration of Independence|declared independence]] in 1776, along with [[Logan's Fort]] and [[Boonesborough, Kentucky|Boonesborough]]. Also known as Oldtown, Harrodstown was the first seat of Virginia's [[Kentucky County, Virginia|Kentucky]] (1776), [[Lincoln County, Virginia|Lincoln]] (1780), and [[Mercer County, Virginia|Mercer]] (1785) Counties upon their formations.<ref name="kleber">{{cite book | last = Kleber | first = John E. | title = The Kentucky Encyclopedia | publisher = The University Press of Kentucky | year = 1992 | location = Lexington KY | isbn = 0-8131-1772-0 }}</ref> It remains the seat of [[Mercer County, Kentucky|Mercer County]] in Kentucky.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 25, 2023 |title=Mercer County |url=https://mercercounty.ky.gov/Pages/default.aspx}}</ref>

A census taken between Dec. 16, 1777, and Oct. 16, 1778,<ref name=":0" /> lists 52 residents, several of whom were well-known pioneers and frontiersmen, including Daniel Boone's younger brother, [[Squire Boone]], [[Silas Harlan]], the [[Harlan County, Kentucky|Kentucky county]]'s namesake,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rennick |first1=Robert |title=Kentucky Place Names |date=1984 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |page=131 |isbn=0813126312 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lac2FUSj_oC&q=cannon+ky&pg=PA131}}</ref> James Harrod, [[Hugh McGary]], Isaac Hite and his cousins, [[Isaac Bowman|Isaac]] and [[John Bowman (pioneer)|John Bowman]],<ref name=":0" /> and [[David Glenn (Pioneer)|David Glenn]], who later travelled further west and settled in [[Yellow Banks, Kentucky|Yellow Banks]] (present [[Daviess County, Kentucky|Daviess County]]).<ref>{{cite book |title=History of Daviess County, Kentucky. Together with Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons, Biographies of Representative Citizens. And an Outline History of Kentucky |date=1883 |publisher=Chicago Inter-State Publishing Co. |pages=54, 556 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_xxEAQAAMAAJ&q=glenn}}</ref> David Glenn, along with his brother [[Thomas Glenn (pioneer)|Thomas]], and Silas Harlan, with his brother James, had accompanied Harrod on his initial expedition in 1774.<ref name=":0" />

The settlement was formally established by the [[Virginia General Assembly]] in 1785 as Harrodsburg.<ref name=ren/> Four years later, it was named the location for the newly created [[United States District Court for the District of Kentucky]] by the [[Judiciary Act of 1789]].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=001/llsl001.db&recNum=197 | title = Statutes at Large, 1st Congress, 1st Session | access-date = 2010-11-13 | work = A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875 | publisher = [[Library of Congress]]}}</ref>

===19th century===
The [[Kentucky General Assembly]] incorporated Harrodsburg in 1836.<ref name=sos/>

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], the town was generally pro-[[Confederate States of America|Confederate]],<ref name="kleber"/> however [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] control permitted the organization two Union regiments, the [[19th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry]] and the [[11th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry]]. The 19th Infantry as organized at nearby Camp Harwood for a three-year enlistment commencing January 2, 1862, under the command of [[Colonel (U.S.)#19th century|Colonel]] [[William J. Landram]]. Companies A, C, D, and F of the 11th Kentucky Cavalry were organized at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, in July 1862. The remainder of the regiment was organized in Louisville, Kentucky, and mustered in on September 26, 1862, for three years service under the command of Colonel Alexander W. Holeman.  Following the [[Battle of Perryville]], much of the city was converted into makeshift hospitals; 1600 sick and wounded Confederate soldiers were captured during a raid by the [[9th Kentucky Cavalry]] under [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|Lieutenant Colonel]] John Boyle on October 10, 1862. The city then remained under martial law for the remainder of the war.<ref name="kleber"/>

The [[Louisville Southern Railroad]] network reached the city in 1888. Its construction commenced in 1884 and ran from Louisville through Shelbyville and Lawrenceburg to Harrodsburg, which was reached in 1888. A spur was constructed to [[Burgin, Kentucky|Burgin]], where the Louisville Southern joined the [[Cincinnati Southern]]'s [[Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway]] CNO&TP mainline. Now all run and are operated by [[Norfolk Southern Railway]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Museum |first=La Grange Railroad |title=LA GRANGE RAILROAD MUSEUM |url=https://lagrangerailroadmuseum.org/qr-8-defunct-ky-railroads |access-date=2023-03-25 |website=LA GRANGE RAILROAD MUSEUM |language=en-US}}</ref>

===20th century===
Pioneer Memorial Park (now Old Fort Harrod State Park) was opened on June 16, 1927. In 1936, President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] honored the city with a monument honoring the "first permanent settlement west of the Appalachians".<ref name="kleber"/>

Company D of the [[192nd Tank Battalion]] in the [[Battle of Bataan]] was from Harrodsburg.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=400EAAAAMBAJ Life Magazine 1942]</ref>