Versailles, Kentucky
Versailles, Kentucky | ||
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FIPS code 21-79482 | | |
GNIS feature ID | 2405645[2] | |
Website | versailles |
Versailles (
History
Versailles was founded on June 23, 1792, on 80 acres (32 hectares) of land owned by Hezekiah Briscoe, who was, at the time, only a child. His guardian,
In 1870, black residents of Versailles took part in a demonstration against police violence after a white officer struck a black man with his pistol. Demonstrators formed armed pickets and guarded roads in and out of Versailles. Two of the leaders were subsequently lynched by a local militia company.[6][7][8]
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.8 square miles (7.3 km2), all land.
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1800 | 172 | — | |
1810 | 488 | 183.7% | |
1830 | 904 | — | |
1840 | 1,044 | 15.5% | |
1860 | 1,142 | — | |
1870 | 3,268 | 186.2% | |
1900 | 2,337 | — | |
1910 | 2,268 | −3.0% | |
1920 | 2,056 | −9.3% | |
1930 | 2,338 | 13.7% | |
1940 | 2,548 | 9.0% | |
1950 | 2,760 | 8.3% | |
1960 | 4,060 | 47.1% | |
1970 | 5,679 | 39.9% | |
1980 | 6,427 | 13.2% | |
1990 | 7,269 | 13.1% | |
2000 | 7,511 | 3.3% | |
2010 | 8,568 | 14.1% | |
2020 | 10,347 | 20.8% | |
2022 (est.) | 10,416 | [9] | 0.7% |
U.S. Decennial Census[10] |
As of the
There were 3,160 households, out of which 29.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% were married couples living together, 14.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.2% were non-families. 28.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.37 and the average family size was 2.89.
23.2% of the population was under the age of 18, 10.1% from 18 to 24, 29.4% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 88.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.8 males.
The median income for a household in the city was
Economy
In the Inner
Thoroughbred farms include Woodburn Stud, Lane's End Farm, and WinStar Farm.
Located in Versailles is
Film industry
Most of the small-town scenes in the movie Elizabethtown (2005) were filmed in Versailles. It was also the setting of the movie Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story (2005). The cemetery scene in the film Secretariat (2010), about one of Kentucky's major race and stud horses, was filmed at Pisgah Pike Church. The Flim-Flam Man (1967) was filmed at several locations near Versailles. The opening sequence was filmed at Paynes Depot, and a car chase was filmed on Clifton Road.
Education
Versailles has a lending library, a branch of the Woodford County Public Library.[12]
Notable people
- Jack Blackburn, professional boxer and trainer of Joe Louis
- Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator
- Ben Chandler, Kentucky Attorney General and U.S. Congressman
- Happy Chandler, Kentucky governor, U.S. senator and Commissioner of Baseball
- Martha Layne Collins, Kentucky governor
- John Conlee, country music singer
- John J. Crittenden, Kentucky governor, U.S. Congressman, senator, attorney general
- Birmingham Ledger
- Randall L. Gibson (1832–1892), politician born here, elected as US Representative and senator from Louisiana, serving from 1875 to 1892
- Field Harris (1895–1967), USMC general who served during World War II and the Korean War
- Virginia Cary Hudson (1894–1954), American writer
- NFL
- Shaun King, activist; leader of Black Lives Matter
- Robert K. Massie (1929–2019), American journalist and historian
- Simon Parmet (1897–1969), temporary resident, composer and conductor
- Noel F. Parrish USAF general
- Edward Platt, actor who played "The Chief" in Get Smart
- Stephen S. Sawyer, artist and writer
- Charles Scott, brigadier general during the American Revolution and fourth governor of Kentucky
- William Shatner, actor and Saddlebred owner
- Sturgill Simpson, singer and songwriter
- Winstar Farm(part-time resident)
- Henry Ward, Kentucky Commissioner of Highways and Commissioner of State Parks
- Ernest E. West, raised in a Versailles orphanage, became a US Army soldier and was awarded the Medal of Honor
References
- ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Versailles, Kentucky
- ^ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Kentucky: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2022". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ "World Population Review". Retrieved February 25, 2020.
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ Aaron Astor, Rebels on the Border: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2012), 237-238
- ^ Victor B. Howard, Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983), 101
- ^ George C. Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940: Lynchings, Mob Rule, and 'Legal Lynchings'" (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990), 48.
- ^ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places in Kentucky: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2022". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
- ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
- ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ "Kentucky Public Library Directory". Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Archived from the original on January 11, 2019. Retrieved June 7, 2019.