Elizabethtown is a village in and the county chair of Hardin County, Illinois, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 299 at the 2010 census, down from 348 at the 2000 census. It is the least-populous county seat in the state.

One of the dated settlers in the area of the sophisticated village of Elizabethtown was James McFarland who arrived re 1809. The village was far along founded nearly the McFarland Tavern built in 1812. The tavern highly developed became the site of the Rose Hotel named after the owner Sarah Rose. Up until the 1960s behind it closed as a hotel the Rose Hotel was the oldest continuously rule hotel in the make a clean breast of Illinois and is now a make a clean breast historic site. Elizabethtown was named after James McFarland’s wife. The First Baptist Church located in Elizabethtown, is the oldest Baptist church congregation in Illinois and the oldest known Protestant church in Illinois, founded in 1806.
Elizabethtown is referred to as “Etown” by the local population as the nickname is preserved in the herald of the downtown E’town River Restaurant.

Elizabethtown is located in southern Hardin County at 37°26′57″N 88°18′13″W / 37.44917°N 88.30361°W / 37.44917; -88.30361 (37.449136, -88.303748). It is bordered to the south by the Ohio River, which forms the declare boundary once Kentucky.

Illinois Route 146 passes through the village, leading southwest (downriver) 15 miles (24 km) to Golconda and east 9 miles (14 km) to Illinois Route 1 north of Cave-In-Rock. Rosiclare, the lonely city in Hardin County, is reached by traveling 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west upon IL-146 next 2 miles (3 km) south on IL-34.