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We would like to provide the residents of  Brandenburg  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Brandenburg Home page. The Brandenburg Home page provides as much information as possible on Brandenburg. Knowing Brandenburg’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Brandenburg’s Home page, you will also find Brandenburg’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Brandenburg has a population of 2874. 48.8% of Brandenburg’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.2 are female. 43.2% of Brandenburg is married and 54.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $161,845, and the average rent is $708. Household median income in Brandenburg is $48,952, and the individual median income is $24,038. Brandenburg’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.5%), Multiple(6.7%), Black(3.6%), Hispanic(2.6%), Asian(0.5%), Native(0.5%), Other(0.2%).


Brandenburg was built on a 3,000-acre (12 km2) tract of land called Falling Springs, purchased in 1804 by Solomon Brandenburg. He opened a tavern around which the community grew. In 1825, the community became the seat of Meade County, but it wasn't formally incorporated by the state assembly until March 28, 1872.During the Civil War, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan crossed at Brandenburg to start his raid into Indiana in July, 1863.


During the Battle of Brandenburg Crossing, two men on the Indiana side of the river were killed by cannon fire from Brandenburg. A Union gunship was deployed to block the crossing, but it ran out of ammunition and Morgan and his men were able to pass into Indiana. Brandenburg was devastated by an F5 tornado during the Super Outbreak of April 3, 1974.


The tornado had touched down near Hardinsburg and as it moved to the northeast grew into a half-mile wide wedge tornado, striking Brandenburg head on. The tornado killed 31 people and injured 270, with all but three of the fatalities and most of the injuries occurring at Brandenburg. 128 homes and 30 businesses were also destroyed.


There was no early warning from tornado sirens or NOAA Weather Wire Service about the storm. About an hour after the storm, the same supercell spawned an F4 tornado that formed in the southwest part of Louisville in Jefferson County near Kosmosdale. Three people lost their lives in this storm, but it also left two hundred and seven injuries.


The Brandenburg tornado remains as the only F5/EF5 tornado in Kentucky state history since official record keeping began in 1950, although later that day another F5 that hit Cincinnati, Ohio crossed the Ohio River from Indiana into Kentucky then into Ohio. The Confederate Monument in Louisville was relocated to Brandenburg in late 2017 and rededicated in 2018.


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