SEARCH   SmallTownGems:


History of Versailles, Kentucky

Click this link to return to town page for recommended Best Small Town.

Versailles was founded on June 23, 1792, on land of eighty acres owned by Hezekiah Briscoe, at the time only a child. His guardian Marquis Calmes named the town after Versailles, France, in honor of General Lafayette. The city was officially incorporated on February 13, 1837. It was briefly occupied during the Civil War by Confederate and Union forces.