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==History== Oldham County was established on December 15, 1823, from parts of [[Henry County, Kentucky|Henry]], [[Jefferson County, Kentucky|Jefferson]], and [[Shelby County, Kentucky|Shelby]] Counties.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2000 |title=Oldham County |url=http://www.kyenc.org/entry/o/OLDHA02.html |access-date=August 23, 2014 |publisher=The Kentucky Encyclopedia |archive-date=July 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717123345/http://www.kyenc.org/entry/o/OLDHA02.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It was the 74th Kentucky county, and was named in honor of Col. William Oldham of Jefferson County, a [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] officer.<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 |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_luoxAQAAMAAJ/page/n36 36]}}</ref> Initially, it was mainly a rural county with small, scattered developments in places like [[Westport, Kentucky|Westport]] which was founded in 1800 and served as the county seat early on. When the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad Company introduced rail lines in the area in the 1850s, many new towns and communities sprang up. Eventually the railroad ceased operating as a form of public transportation, but the more rural nature of the county continued to draw residents away from the metropolitan areas in Jefferson County.{{Citation needed|date=October 2012}} Since the early 1970s and the completion of [[Interstate 71]], which connects Oldham County to [[Downtown Louisville]] and shopping in Eastern Jefferson County, Oldham County has increasingly become suburban in nature, a natural extension of Louisville's wealthy East End as it ran out of large tracts of undeveloped land.{{Citation needed|date=October 2012}}
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