Bourbon County settlers raised sheep and cultivated hemp, flax, and cotton.
Many prominent men lived in and about Bardstown in the early times. In the cemetery is the grave of poor John Fitch (bearing the date of his death, 1798), whose name is so pathetically connected with the invention of the steamboat. Maryland Catholics primarily settled the town and surrounding neighborhood at the close of the Revolution. They were people of culture and have held the region to the present day, planting their institutions of learning and religion in it. Thither fled Trappist monks from France, who founded the ” Home of the Silent Brotherhood.” Nearby, the pious Sisters of Loretto dwell in their convent of the Stricken Heart and the Presbyterians.
Source: Source: A History of Kentucky by Elizabeth Shelby Kinkkead.
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