Elizabethtown (Kentucky)

Elizabethtown is a small town in the Kentucky Derby Region. Abraham Lincoln's parents Thomas and Nancy had their daughter Sarah here in 1807 and then Abraham nearby at Sinking Spring Farm in 1809.

Understand
In 1862, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan assailed the town in a hail of cannon balls, one of which lodged in the Joey Lee Building on the downtown square and can be seen to this day.

George Armstrong Custer also spent time here working to quell anti-freedmen violence and illegal distilleries.

Get in
Elizabethtown, often called "E-town" by locals, is a hub city located in Hardin County, Kentucky. It is served by Interstate 65, linking Louisville and points north with Nashville and points south. The Blue Grass Parkway links Elizabethtown with points east, including Lexington. Heading west is the Western Kentucky Parkway, which brings traffic from the Land Between the Lakes and Paducah.

Buy
There is a mini mall called "Towne Mall".

Eat
Penn Station is amazing.

Drink
City voters approved full retail alcohol sales on October 4, 2011, making "E-town" fully "wet". Previously, alcohol sales had been allowed only by the drink in certain restaurants (determined by seating capacity). Its neighbor of Radcliff and near-neighbor of Vine Grove also voted wet on the same day. The rest of Hardin County is dry, with two exceptions:
 * One private golf course (Pine Valley Golf Course) received approval from local voters to sell alcohol by the drink.
 * The city of West Point, in the far north of the county, has voted to allow sales by the drink in restaurants that seat at least 50.

By phone
Most telephone numbers in Elizabethtown consist of +1 270 plus a seven-digit number, but the entire 270 area is now served by an overlay complex of two area codes, with +1 364 as the second. A local or in-state telephone call now requires all 10 digits of the local number be dialed (omitting just the leading +1 from a local landline call).

Signage on many established businesses may still display the original seven-digit numbers; dial 270 before these if no area code is indicated.

Note that nearby Fort Knox is in area code 502, not 270/364. However, Radcliff, which borders directly on both Elizabethtown and Fort Knox, is in 270/364.