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| | Ky Search: Anderson County Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Anderson county, the 82d in order of formation, was organized in 1827, out of parts of Franklin, Mercer, and Washington; and named after one of the most brilliant young men of Kentucky, Richard Clough Anderson, Jr. |
 | | It is situated in the middle portion of the state, and is bounded on the north by Franklin county, east by the Kentucky river, which separates it from Woodford, south by Mercer and Washington, and west by Spencer county. |
 | | In the county are thirteen distilleries, which have manufactured in a year 4,000 barrels of old-fashioned, sour-mash, hand-made, copper-distilled whisky, of very fine quality. |
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