Hurstbourne is a home rule-class city[3] in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.

It was probably located along the east side of what is now Hurstbourne Parkway and at the time formed a part of the road from the Falls of the Ohio to Fort Harrod.

The victims of the 1781 Long Run Massacre were on their way to this site from Squire Boone's Station when they were attacked by Indians and British soldiers.

[5] In 1789, however, Colonel Richard Anderson purchased 500 acres (2.0 km2) of land in the area and established his estate under the name "Soldier's Retreat".

By 1842, John Jeremiah Jacob owned the property and erected Lyndon Hall, now part of the Hurstbourne Country Club's clubhouse.

By 1965, the property was called "Highbaugh Farms" and, owing to the expansion of Louisville, commercial and residential development began.

The area surrounding the intersection of I-64 and Hurstbourne Parkway can be considered an edge city to Louisville, with office parks, shopping centers, and an industrial park all concentrated within a few blocks of the parkway, and residential neighborhoods further off, all on land that was largely undeveloped 40 years earlier.