BLANDVILLE

NAME: Blandville COUNTY: Ballard ROADS: 2WD GRID: 4 CLIMATE: hot in summer, cool in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime

COMMENTS: Currently 30 residents live in Blandville. Not much to see or do except for the old graveyard. The best way to get to Blandville is to turn off of state highway 121 onto highway 802, Blandville is about one mile. REMAINS: Graveyard, one old house

Blandville was the site of the first courthouse in ballard county, Kentucky, which, until 1886 was comprised of present Ballard and Carlisle counties. Blandville, like Ballard county, was named after Captain Bland Ballard. Established as county seat by Kentucky legislature in 1842, and continued as such for forty years until 1882, when the courthuose burned. Wickliffe then became county seat. Submitted by: John Davidson

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