Petersburg, Boone County, Kentucky
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Petersburg is an unincorporated community in Boone County, Kentucky, United States. The community was established about 1800. The Bullittsburg Baptist Church was founded outside former hamlets Utzinger and Gainesville, east and north of Petersburg in 1794.
The community is unincorporated, therefore the political boundaries are inexact. Petersburg is generally considered to the be all the areas west of the Route 20-Route 8 conjunction outside the Idewild Bypass, to the conjunction of Route 20 and Burlington Pike (Route 18). All of the areas along Woolper Road are considered as Petersburg until the roads meeting with Burlington Pike near Commisary Corner.
The village is home to the Creation Museum. [1]
[edit] Notable natives
- Charles Clinton Fleek, recipient of the Medal of Honor for service in the Vietnam War
[edit] References
- ^ HomeTownLocator. Retrieved on 2006-06-10.
[edit] External links
- Petersburg, Boone County, Kentucky is at coordinates Coordinates:
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