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The Logan County Courthouse is located at 229 West 3rd Street, Russellville, KY 42276, Phone: 270-726-6061. The 13th Kentucky county to be created, it was formed in 1792 from part of Lincoln County.
Located along the Tennessee border north of Nashville, Logan County [†] was carved from Lincoln County in 1792 by the Kentucky Legislature with Russellville chosen as the county seat. The county was named for Benjamin Logan (1743–1802), a soldier, politician, and leader in Kentucky’s efforts to become a state. Logan had been second in command of the Kentucky militia during the American Revolutionary War. Colonizing European American settlers began trickling into Logan County in the 1780s. They initially occupied the fertile bottomland along rivers and creeks where they established farms, which were operated with the labor of enslaved Black laborers. The richest farmland was in the southern section of the county.
† Hstoric Architecture Survey and Assessment of Effects for the proposed Russellville Solar Farm, 2022, www.ky.gov, accessed May, 2025.
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