Versailles, KY
N 38° 04.055 W 084° 44.249
16S E 698473 N 4215730
The city's name is pronounced differently from the French city of the same name: /v?'se?lz/ ("ver-sails"). It is located in the middle of horse county, in Woodford County, KY. In 2000 it's population was listed as 7,511 people.
Waymark Code: WM2YW5
Location: Kentucky, United States
Date Posted: 01/12/2008
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Versailles was founded on June 23, 1792, on land of eighty acres owned by Hezekiah Briscoe, at the time only a child. His guardian, Major Marquis Calmes, named the town after Versailles, France, in honor of General Lafayette, a family friend. The city was officially incorporated on February 13, 1837. It was briefly occupied during the Civil War by Confederate and Union forces.
The area is home to Ashford Stud, an important part of the Coolmore Stud international Thoroughbred horse breeding operation. The area is also home to Labrot & Graham Distillery, makers of Woodford Reserve Bourbon. Most of the small town scenes in the movie Elizabethtown (film) were filmed here. Versailles was also the setting of the movie Dreamer: Inspired By A True Story.