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Harrodsburg

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Harrodsburg, city (1990 pop. 7,335), seat of Mercer co., central Ky., S of Frankfort. It is a trade center in a bluegrass area producing livestock, grain, and tobacco. Dairy products, paper goods, optical lenses, and textiles are also made. Harrodsburg is a tourist and resort city, with mineral springs. The oldest settlement W of the Alleghenies, it was founded in 1774 by James Harrod Harrod, James, 1742–93, American frontiersman, b. Bedford co., Pa. He fought in the French and Indian Wars and in 1773 made a journey down the Ohio River to Kentucky.
..... Click the link for more information. . One of the settlement's early leaders was George Rogers Clark Clark, George Rogers, 1752–1818, American Revolutionary general, conqueror of the Old Northwest, b. near Charlottesville, Va.; brother of William Clark.
..... Click the link for more information. . Pioneer Memorial State Park contains a replica of old Fort Harrod, where the state's first school was conducted.
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For history or Civil War buffs there is the historic sites and reconstructions at Harrodsburg, Perryville and Nicholasville.
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By car--from Bloomington, take Highway 37 south to the Harrodsburg exit, go east to Fairfax Road, then south to the resort.
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