ANDERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY Genealogy and History Welcome to Anderson County, KY History and Genealogy Presented by Kentucky Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Kentucky is covered under our "Southern" States mailing list. COUNTY HISTORY Created on 16 Jan 1827, it was formed from Franklin, Mercer, and Washington Counties. Its county seat is Lawrenceburg, Kentucky. The county is named for Richard Clough Anderson, Jr., a Kentucky Legislator, U.S. Congressman, and minister to Colombia. It is the home town of Wild Turkey Bourbon. County Courthouse There were two courthouse disasters, on Oct. 26, 1859 and on Jan. 13, 1915 which resulted in Order Book D and Mortgage Book B being lost. Tyrone, a small community that sits along the river bottoms of the Kentucky River, is the oldest in the county and the only other place besides Lawrenceburg where you will find sidewalks. From Tyrone you can view the cascading hillsides joined by an "S" curved bridge and neighboring railroad cantilever bridge that leads into the local distillery. The railroad bridge, known as Young's High Bridge built in 1889, is one of the oldest and tallest still standing today. [Source: Lawrenceburg's Town Site] ONLINE DATA Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles History Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Poor House Data Wills/Legal Records  Slaves/Slavery Website Updates: Slave Narrative Famous people of Anderson County SURROUNDING COUNTIES Woodford / Mercer / Washington Nelson / Spencer / Shelby / Franklin Back to Kentucky Trails Visit Genealogy Trails National Site! Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.