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


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

Prestonsburg has a population of 3537. 52.6% of Prestonsburg’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.4 are female. 38.9% of Prestonsburg is married and 50.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $125,114, and the average rent is $615. Household median income in Prestonsburg is $27,061, and the individual median income is $18,623. Prestonsburg’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.9%), Black(6.2%), Multiple(1.8%), Hispanic(1.3%), Asian(0.8%), Other(0.4%).


The area was part of the 100,000-acre (400 km2) grant in the early 1700s to the family of John Preston's wife, born Elizabeth Patton, which he administered on her behalf. The grant was intended to permit British colonization beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains, but subsequent French and Indian resistance and a reversal of British policy limited its impact.


The land was not settled until John Spurlock of Montgomery County, Virginia, arrived in 1791. He laid out the town of "Preston's Station" in 1797. It became the seat of Floyd County upon its formation in 1799 and was formally established in 1818. The post office was known as "Floyd Court House" from its establishment in 1816 until the late 1820s, when it was renamed "Prestonsburg".On January 10, 1862, nearby Middle Creek was the scene of the largest battle of the Civil War to occur in eastern Kentucky.


The town was also the site of one of the worst school bus disasters in American history on February 28, 1958. The town had a pack horse library in the late 1930s to bring library materials to rural mountain residents.


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