Bengal is an unincorporated community in Taylor County, Kentucky, United States. Located west of the city of Campbellsville, the county seat of Taylor County, it is served by Bengal Road from Campbellsville and by Route 323. Its elevation is 722 feet (220 m). It may have been named after an early street in

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, now an area included within the city of Louisville. Another possibility is that it was associated with a French settler from Calcutta via Bengal, who first settled in Paris, Kentucky.William Henry Perrin, J. H. Battle, G. C. Kniffin, ''Kentucky: A History of the State''
Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony, Its Expansion Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier Beyond the Alleghanies : the Erection of Kentucky as an Independent State, and Its Subsequent Development'', Adair County (Ky.): F. A. Battey, 1887, pp. 287, 294 The first settlers of Campbellsville and this part of the county arrived after the American Revolutionary War. Many migrants used the Cumberland Gap to travel through the Appalachians. About 1802

Elias Barbee Elias is the Greek equivalent of Elijah ( he, אֵלִיָּהוּ‎ ''ʾĒlīyyāhū''; Syriac: ܐܠܝܐ ''Eliyā''; Arabic: الیاس Ilyās/Elyās), a prophet in the Northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th century BC, mentioned in several h ...

and Revolutionary War veterans James and Jonathan Cowherd established a school in the Bengal area, as churches were also being founded. Barbee served as a general during the War of 1812. He and numerous other migrants to what became Taylor County were from Pennsylvania; while others were from Virginia, North Carolina, and Maryland."Taylor County"
''The Encyclopedia of Kentucky'', ed. John E. Kleber, University Press of Kentucky, 2015, p. 871 In 1911 the community was provided service by the Bengal Telephone Company.
Biennial Report
', Frankfort, Kentucky: Auditor of Public Accounts, The State, 1911, p. 472

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Unincorporated communities in Taylor County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{TaylorCountyKY-geo-stub