Hurstbourne is a home rule-class city in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 4,216 at the 2010 census, up from 3,884 at the grow old of the 2000 U.S. census. It is share of the Louisville Metro Government.

The estate of the present city was part of a military agree to Henry Harrison. It was surveyed by John Floyd in 1774 and first contracted by Maj. William Linn, who erected Linn’s Station along Beargrass Creek in 1779. It was probably located along the east side of what is now Hurstbourne Parkway and at the grow old formed a allocation of the road from the Falls of the Ohio to Fort Harrod. The victims of the 1781 Long Run Massacre were on their pretension to this site from Squire Boone’s Station following they were attacked by Indians and British soldiers. Finding their affirmation to the land’s title questionable, Linn’s heirs deserted the site in the 1790s.

In 1789, however, Colonel Richard Anderson purchased 500 acres (2.0 km) of house in the area and conventional his estate under the name “Soldier’s Retreat”. His home suffered damage in the 1811 earthquake, was struck by lightning, and was demolished in the 1840s. By 1842, John Jeremiah Jacob owned the property and erected Lyndon Hall, now part of the Hurstbourne Country Club’s clubhouse.

In 1915, the Hert associates acquired the property and renamed it “Hurstbourne”. Hurstbourne Parkway was created in 1935 past an earlier passageway was widened. By 1965, the property was called “Highbaugh Farms” and, owing to the progress of Louisville, commercial and residential move ahead began. It incorporated as a city in 1982 to prevent its annexation by Louisville. Almost whatever of the within reach land inside the city’s limits was developed by 1990.