Hurstbourne is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County,

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History

The land of the present city was part of a military grant to Henry Harrison. It was surveyed by John Floyd in 1774 and first settled by Maj. William Linn, who erected Linn's

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along Beargrass Creek in 1779. It was probably located along the east side of what is now Hurstbourne Parkway and at the time formed a part of the road from the

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to Fort Harrod. The victims of the 1781

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were on their way to this site from

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when they were attacked by Indians and

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. Finding their claim to the land's title questionable, Linn's heirs abandoned the site in the 1790s.''The Kentucky Encyclopedia''
pp. 448
"Hurstbourne". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 1992. Accessed 30 July 2013. In 1789, however, Colonel Richard Anderson purchased of land in the area and established his estate under the name "Soldier's Retreat". His house suffered damage in the 1811 earthquake, was struck by lightning, and was demolished in the 1840s. By 1842, John Jeremiah Jacob owned the property and erected Lyndon Hall, now part of the Hurstbourne Country Club's clubhouse. In 1915, the Hert family acquired the property and renamed it "Hurstbourne". Hurstbourne Parkway was created in 1935 when an earlier lane was widened. By 1965, the property was called "Highbaugh Farms" and, owing to the expansion of

, commercial and residential development began. It incorporated as a city in 1982 to prevent its annexation by Louisville. Almost all of the available land inside the city's limits was developed by 1990. Development in the 1970s, however, rediscovered the ruins of the Anderson house, which was excavated and rebuilt by local developer Leroy Highbaugh Jr. He moved his family into the rebuilt Soldier's Retreat in 1983, and it now forms a local landmark.

Geography

Hurstbourne is located in east-central Jefferson County. According to the

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, the city has a total area of , of which , or 0.63%, are water. Hurstbourne is bounded by Shelbyville Road (

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) to its north, Hurstbourne Parkway to its east,

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to its south, and Oxmoor Farm and

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to its west. Neighboring cities include

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and Bellemeade to the north, and Jeffersontown to the east. The area surrounding the intersection of I-64 and Hurstbourne Parkway can be considered an

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to Louisville, with office parks, shopping centers, and an industrial park all concentrated within a few blocks of the parkway, and residential neighborhoods further off, all on land that was largely undeveloped 40 years earlier.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 3,884 people, 1,699 households, and 1,199 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 1,887 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 91.45%

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, 3.01%

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, 0.10% Native American, 4.25% Asian, 0.23% from other races, and 0.95% from two or more races.

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or Latino of any race were 1.08% of the population. There were 1,699 households, out of which 22.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 65.7% were

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living together, 3.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.4% were non-families. 27.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 17.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.78. In the city, the population was spread out, with 18.4% under the age of 18, 4.3% from 18 to 24, 16.7% from 25 to 44, 36.8% from 45 to 64, and 23.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 51 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 82.9 males. The median income for a household in the city was $88,972, and the median income for a family was $106,450. Males had a median income of $98,616 versus $35,029 for females. The

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for the city was $49,328. About 1.3% of families and 3.1% of the population were below the

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, including 1.9% of those under age 18 and 6.1% of those age 65 or over. Image:Hurstbournescene.jpg, Summer day in Hurstbourne Image:Hurstbournesign.jpg, Hurstbourne entrance marker Image:Soldiersretreatmarker.jpg, Historical marker

References

External links

City of Hurstbourne official website
{{authority control Cities in Kentucky Cities in Jefferson County, Kentucky Louisville metropolitan area Populated places established in 1965 1789 establishments in Virginia 1965 establishments in Kentucky