Breckinridge County, Kentucky

Founding: 1799
Parent county: Hardin

Namesake: John Breckinridge (1760–1806), Virginia politician
Seat: Hardinsburg (1800–)

Land area: 567 square miles

Population (2010): 20,059

Population (historic): 3,430 (1810); 8,944 (1840); 13,440 (1870); 20,534 (1900); 17,368 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1810–1820; 1830–1860; 1870–1890; 1970s; 1990s

Subdivisions: Three cities

National Register listings: 11

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 903 (8.4%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 21.7%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 16.6%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $448
Average outbuilding value (1930): $349
Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.3 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 3,300
Average farm size (1920): 63.3 acres
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Hardinsburg

Namesake: William Hardin, owner of the village site

Founding: 1800 (platting); 1803 (post office); 1890 (incorporation)

Population (2010): 2,343

Population (historic): 316 (1830); 380 (1860); 585 (1880); 689 (1900); 805 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1830; 1860–1890; 1930s; 1950–1980; 1990s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 80 (7.5%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. *Fisher House (c. 1801/1905). 150 Carter Road. Federal.
2. *Joseph Oglesby House (c. 1825). Cloverport Road, west of Cloverport.
3. *Holt Chapel (1871). Holt Road, southeast of State Route 144. Gothic Revival. Razed.
4. House (c. 1830). 1275 Kirk–Glen Dean Road.
5. *Abraham Skillman House (c. 1876). East Main Street, east of Cloverport. Italianate.
6. *Joseph Holt Farm (c. 1860?). 6205 State Route 144. Italianate.