New Concord is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Calloway County,

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, United States.

History

On March 2, 1836, a post office was opened at the site and it was named as being located at Humility, Kentucky. Settlers from

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came to the area in the late 1830s and renamed Humility to Concord in 1835. The post office was renamed New Concord in 1861 because there was already a

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in Lewis County. Thus after existing as Concord since 1835, the community was incorporated with the new name of New Concord in 1868. Fort Heiman, a Confederate gun emplacement constructed during the

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, is one and a half miles southeast of the community and is part of

Fort Donelson National Battlefield Fort Donelson National Battlefield preserves Fort Donelson and Fort Heiman, two sites of the American Civil War Forts Henry and Donelson Campaign, in which Union Army Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant and Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote captu ...

. In 1955, the New Concord community received international recognition from Hollywood with that year's release of the

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directed and also top role performed film ''

The Kentuckian (1955 film) ''The Kentuckian'' is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western (genre), Western film directed by Burt Lancaster, who also stars. This is one of only two films that Lancaster directed (the other was ''The Midnight Man (1974 film), The Midnight Man'') ...

'' a historical film project which portrayed 1820s Kentucky. Much of that film's content took place in a community named Humility, a former name for New Concord, as the film's lead role awaited the arrival of river transportation from Kentucky to Texas.

References

Unincorporated communities in Calloway County, Kentucky Unincorporated communities in Kentucky {{CallowayCountyKY-geo-stub