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Leestown,
Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...
was a settlement located originally in
colonial Virginia The Colony of Virginia was a British Empire, British colonial settlement in North America from 1606 to 1776. The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colo ...
, now in present-day Franklin County, Kentucky, on the east side of the
Kentucky River The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River in Kentucky, United States. The river and its tributaries drain much of eastern and central Kentucky, passing through the Eastern Coalfield, the Cumberland Mountains, and the Bluegrass re ...
, roughly a mile north of the area that later became
Frankfort, Kentucky Frankfort is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is a list of Kentucky cities, home rule-class city and the county seat, seat of Franklin County, Kentucky, Franklin County in the Upland Sou ...
.


History

First surveyed in 1773, Leestown was established in 1775 by Hancock Lee and Willis Lee; it was the first Anglo-American settlement on the north side of the Kentucky River. The settlement was recognized by the Virginia legislature in 1776, temporarily abandoned in 1777 due to attacks by Native Americans aligned with the British during the
American Revolution The American Revolution (1765–1783) was a colonial rebellion and war of independence in which the Thirteen Colonies broke from British America, British rule to form the United States of America. The revolution culminated in the American ...
, but reestablished soon after. Today, the site is within the city limits of Frankfort. The site is marked by the
Kentucky Historical Society The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) is an agency of the Kentucky state government that records and preserves important historical documents, buildings, and artifacts of Kentucky's past. It was originally established in 1836 as a private organiz ...
, with the Kentucky Department of Highways (Marker Number 103).


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Frankfort, Kentucky Official site
{{Authority control Frankfort, Kentucky Populated places established in 1775 1776 establishments in Virginia