1967 Map of Elizabethtown

About this map

Elizabethtown serves as the focal point of this late 1960s survey, showing a period of significant transit expansion as the Kentucky Toll Road and Blue Grass Parkway converge near the city center. This infrastructure development cuts through a landscape still deeply rooted in its pioneer and nineteenth-century history, evidenced by the numerous small burial grounds and family-named landmarks. Features like the Helm Cem and Severns Valley Cem reflect the area’s early genealogy, while the Louisville and Nashville railroad tracks parallel the older northward routes toward Tunnel Hill. The transition from rural agriculture to mid-century suburbanization is visible in the emergence of the Indian Hills neighborhood and the Elizabethtown Country Club. Further south, the boundary between Hardin Co and LaRue Co meanders across Middle Creek, marking the edge of the plateau before it drops toward the rolling hills of the Green River watershed.