Harrodsburg is a house rule-class city in Mercer County, Kentucky, United States. It is the chair of its county. The population was 9,064 at the 2020 census.

Although Harrodsburg was formally expected by the Virginia House of Burgesses after Boonesborough and was not incorporated by the Kentucky legislature until 1836, it is usually considered the oldest city in Kentucky and has been privileged as the oldest surviving American harmony west of the Appalachians.

Harrodstown (sometimes Harrod’s Town) was laid out and founded by James Harrod on June 16, 1774. Harrod led a company of adventurers adding up 31 men, beginning May 25 at Fort Redstone in Pennsylvania next to the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers in canoes and through a series of extra rivers and creeks to the town’s present-day location.

Later that thesame year, amid Dunmore’s War, Lord Dunmore sent two men to tell the surveyors of imminent Shawnee attacks, Daniel Boone and Michael Stoner, who are said to have completed the round vacation of 800 miles in 64 days. Regardless, the pioneers remained for a few weeks until a man was killed by the natives, when the pact was by yourself and resettled the subsequent to year by March. It was one of three settlements in present-day Kentucky at the grow old the Thirteen Colonies avowed independence in 1776, along taking into account Logan’s Fort and Boonesborough. Also known as Oldtown, Harrodstown was the first seat of Virginia’s Kentucky (1776), Lincoln (1780), and Mercer (1785) Counties on their formations. It remains the seat of Mercer County in Kentucky.