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

Jeffersontown has a population of 27933. 48% of Jeffersontown’s inhabitants are Male, and 52 are female. 52.9% of Jeffersontown is married and 67.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $186,332, and the average rent is $1,015. Household median income in Jeffersontown is $70,951, and the individual median income is $39,614. Jeffersontown’s Ethnic is the following: White(78.5%), Black(10.1%), Asian(5.8%), Hispanic(5.3%), Multiple(3.3%), Other(1.7%), Native(0.6%).


Before European exploration, this was occupied by succeeding cultures of Native Americans. They hunted the area for its rich game, including bison herds. The bison created paths through the forests and meadows for their seasonal migrations that were later used by Native Americans and, in turn, by Europeans and Americans alike. Located in southeastern Jefferson County, along the north central border of Kentucky, Jeffersontown was initially developed in the late 1700s as a stopover and trading station for early European-American pioneers on their way to the Falls of the Ohio at Louisville.


Farmers began to cultivate the rich land, which was surveyed by Thomas Bullitt in 1773 and John Floyd the next year. The Hites, Tylers, and Oldhams all settled the area under land grants given to veterans for military service following the American Revolutionary War, as the new government was cash poor.In 1794, Abraham Bruner purchased 122 acres (49 ha) of land.


In May 1797, he successfully petitioned the Jefferson County Fiscal Court to incorporate a 40-acre (16 ha) section of his land as the city of Jefferson – named either after the county or after Thomas Jefferson, then the vice president of the United States. The city was long known as Bruner's Town or Brunerstown by its inhabitants, but the usage Jefferson Town eventually became adopted as its present name.A large, 600-acre area from the pioneer days has been preserved since the late 20th century and recognized as the Tyler Settlement Rural Historic District.


It is used largely for agricultural purposes. This district is east of Jeffersontown; it contains several of the Tylers' original log cabins and barns. A large portion of the Tyler settlement is known as the Blackacre Nature Preserve. This 170-acre tract is used by Jefferson County public schools as part of their environmental education.


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