Hardinsburg is a home rule-class city[4] in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, in the United States.

In August 1779, Sinclair Hardin, William's cousin, was the first man killed (by the Shawnee) west of the Alleghenies Mountains at Big Springs during an early excursion into the Kentucky wilderness.

According to the description, the land was on Hardin's Creek, a branch of the Ohio River, and it was formally granted on June 21, 1786.

It is small and its growth has been slow, having failed to number a thousand inhabitants in its first hundred years.

Among its early and prominent citizens were Joseph Allen, Captain Thomas Kincheloe, Reverend James Taylor, Philip Lightfoot, Morris Hensly, Charles Hambleton, William Feaman, B and RM Wathen, John McClarty, William Morton, Stanley Singleton, James and Williamson Cox, William Seaton, Francis Peyton, Joseph Thomas, Thornton Smith, Jefferson Jennings and Dr. S.B.

RG Gardner and Squire Eskridge die, the "old guard" will have become extinct.

[8] William Hardin received grants from the state of Virginia in 1785 for 3800 acres of land, all near the present site of Hardinsburg, Kentucky.

At seventeen years of age, and newly arrived at the fort, James went alone to bring in the horses which were grazing along Clover Creek, a few hundred yards from its palisaded walls.

James Jolly was the first person to die at Hardin's Station and the first to be buried under a hickory tree near the banks of Clover Creek, where, both his father and William Hardin were buried when they died.

Its post office was established on January 1, 1803, as Breckinridge Court House or Hardinburg.

[14] In 1887, a group met at the courthouse and started the Baptist church for the town.

In 1871 and 1872 there was a school in town for black students supported by the Freedmen's Aid Society.