Lancaster at Wallace’s Crossroads

Capt. William Buford donated about 57 acres at Wallace’s Crossroads—where the Harrodsburg–Boonesborough road crossed the Hickman–Crab Orchard route—and Joseph Bledsoe Jr. platted a grid around a public square in 1797–98. First court sat June 6, 1797; a brick courthouse rose by 1799.

The name “Lancaster” came from Pennsylvania (via settler Henry Paulding or the plan itself). The town stuck as Garrard’s only incorporated seat, still anchored on that pioneer crossroads.