Perryville (/ˈpɛrɪvəl, -vɪl/)[2] is a home rule-class city along the Chaplin River in western Boyle County, Kentucky, in the United States.

The site was first settled by James Harbeson and a band of Virginians in the final stages of the American Revolution c. 1781.

Harbeson's Fort[2] or Station[6] was located near a cave and spring to provide additional protection from Indian raids.

The settlement's position beside the river and along roads leading to Harrod's Fort, Louisville, Lebanon, and Danville caused it to be renamed Harbeson's Crossing.

[6] In October 1862, the fields west of town were the site of the Battle of Perryville, an important encounter in the American Civil War that ended the Kentucky Campaign of Confederate generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith.

The Perryville Battlefield is preserved as a state park, and is the site of a reenactment of the battle every year.

In 1973, the entire town of Perryville, because of the contribution the village has made toward American history, was put on the National Register of Historic Places.