Wakefield 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 Spencer County,

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, United States. Wakefield lies on

Kentucky Route 55 Kentucky Route 55 (KY 55) is a state highway in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. The route originates at a junction with U.S. Route 127 in Freedom, Russell County. The route continues through Columbia in Adair County to U.S. Route 68 i ...

midway between Taylorsville and Bloomfield. Wakefield was named after Wakefield Farm, a nineteenth-century homestead.

William Clarke Quantrill William Clarke Quantrill (July 31, 1837 – June 6, 1865) was a Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War. Quantrill experienced a turbulent childhood, became a schoolteacher, and joined a group of bandits who roamed the Misso ...

, a

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raid leader, was ambushed and killed by Union troops at Wakefield Farm in May 1865. Country musician Bill Carlisle was born at Wakefield in 1908.

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