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Boyle County, Kentucky

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101historic places

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1842formed

30,614pop. 2020

25cemeteries

1CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 101 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 3 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Danville, Perryville, Gravel Switch.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Kentucky is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Boyle titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

77 of 101 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

101 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Aliceton Camp Meeting Ground	Gravel Switch	Building	1998
Barbee, John, House	Bryantsville	Building	1983
Barbee, Thomas, House	Danville	Building	2019
Bottom, H. P., House	Perryville	Building	1976
Bower House	Parksville	Building	1999
Boyle County Courthouse	Danville	Building	1973
Boyle, Judge John, House	Danville	Building	1980
Bright, T.B., House and Farmstead	Danville	Building	1997
Buster, Nimrod I., House and Farmstead	Danville	Building	1997
Caldwell House	Danville	Building	1983
Caldwell, Charles W., House	Danville	Building	1999
Caldwell, W. Logan, Farmstead	Danville	Building	1999
Cambus-Kenneth Estate	Danville	Building	1977
Carnegie Library	Danville	Building	1986
Cincinnati Southern Railroad Culvert-CSRR	Danville	Structure	1998
Clemens-Caldwell House	Danville	Building	2026
Clifton Baptist Church Complex	Clifton	Building	1998
Clifton Road Culvert	Clifton	Building	1997
Confederate Monument in Danville	Danville	Object	1997
Confederate Monument in Perryville	Perryville	Object	1997
Constitution Square Historic District	Danville	District	1976
Crawford House	Perryville	Building	1976
Crow, William, House	Bryantsville	Building	1983
Crow-Barbee House	Danville	Building	1983
Cutter, Henry, Houses	Junction City	Building	1997
Danville Commercial District	Danville	District	1986
Danville National Cemetery	Danville	Site	1998
Dutch Barn	Danville	Building	1998
East Main Street Historic District	Danville	District	1986
First Christian Church	Junction City	Building	1998
First Presbyterian Church	Danville	Building	1986
Forest Hill	Danville	Building	1989
Forkland School and Gymnasium	Gravel Switch	Building	1998
Gentry House	Danville	Building	1997
Goodall Building	Danville	Building	2014
Granite Hill Farmstead	Danville	Building	1997
Grimes, Willis, House	Danville	Building	1997
Guthrie-May House	Gravel Switch	Building	1999
Hankla-Walker House	Perryville	Building	1998
Harlan's Station Site	Danville	Site	1976
Harlan, Elijah, House	Danville	Building	1983
Harlan-Bruce House	Danville	Building	1978
Harrodsburg Pike Rural Historic District	Danville	District	1998
Haskins, W. H., House	Danville	Building	1986
Hutchings, A., House	Danville	Building	1997
Isaacs House and Farmstead	Gravel Switch	Building	1999
Jacobs Hall, Kentucky School for the Deaf NHL	Danville	Building	1966
Junction City Municipal Building	Junction City	Building	1998
Knox, Abner, Farm	Danville	Building	1983
Lazy Acres Farm	Danville	Building	1999
Lexington Avenue-Broadway Historic District	Danville	District	1987
Maple Avenue District	Danville	District	1987
Marshall House	Junction City	Building	1983
Marshall-Wallace House	Danville	Building	2021
Mason, Peter, House	Danville	Building	1991
McClure-Barbee House	Danville	Building	1973
McDowell, Dr. Ephraim, House NHL	Danville	Building	1966
McFerran House	Danville	Building	1997
McGrorty Avenue-Old Wilderness Road Historic District	Danville	District	2019
Melrose	Danville	Building	1986
Mitchell, James P., House and Farmstead	Mitchellsburg	Building	1997
Mitchellsburg Louisville and Nashville Railroad Culvert	Mitchellsburg	Structure	1998
Mock, Randolf, Farm	Danville	Building	1983
Moore, Christopher Collins, Farm	Danville	District	1994
Moore, J.J., House	Parksville	Building	1997
Old Centre, Centre College	Danville	Building	1972
Oldham, Mary Simpson, House	Danville	Building	1997
Penn's Store	Gravel Switch	Building	1998
Perryville Battlefield NHL	Perryville	Site	1966
Perryville Historic District	Perryville	District	1973
Pleasant Vale	Danville	Building	1984
Purdom-Lewis-Hutchison House	Gravel Switch	Building	1997
Rice-Worthington House	Danville	Building	1995
Robinson, James, House	Mitchellsburg	Building	1998
Rosel Hotel	Junction City	Building	1997
Roselawn	Danville	Building	1986
Salt River Road	Danville	Structure	1997
Second Street Christian Church	Danville	Building	2013
Spears-Craig House	Danville	Building	1997
Spring Hill (Thomas Lillard House)	Danville	Building	1983
St. James AME Church	Danville	Building	2013
St. Mildred's Court-West Lexington Avenue Historic Distric t	Danville	District	1994
Stone Bridge at Chaplin Creek	Parksville	Structure	1998
Stone House on Old Stage Road	Bryantsville	Building	1983
Tank Pond Railroad Underpass	Mitchellsburg	Structure	1998
Terrace Court Historic District	Danville	District	2010
The Norton Center for the Arts	Danville	Building	2023
Thompson, William, House	Perryville	Building	1983
Three Gothic Villas	Danville	District	1977
Todd-Montgomery Houses	Danville	District	1976
Trinity Episcopal Church	Danville	Building	1977
Union Monument in Perryville	Perryville	Object	1997
Unknown Confederate Dead Monument in Perryville	Perryville	Object	1997
Vanarsdale, J.S. and Nannie, House	Danville	Building	1997
Vermillion House and Farmstead	Danville	Building	1998
Wallace, J.S., House	Danville	Building	1997
Warehouse District	Danville	District	1986
Waveland	Danville	Building	1976
Wilson's Station	Danville	Building	1997
Worthington, Charles T., House	Danville	Building	1997
Yeager, Samuel, House	Danville	Building	1997

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Boyle was formed in 1842 (1842-03-01) from Lincoln, Mercer.

BOYLE created from LINCOLN and MERCER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Boyle County population from 1850 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1850	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
9,116	9,304	11,930	13,817	14,998	17,075	20,532	21,257	25,066	27,697	30,614

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

25 cemeteries and 7 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 25 of 25 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Aliceton Cemetery	37.59272	-85.02806
Bellevue Cemetery	37.65229	-84.76855
Chambers Cemetery	37.59338	-84.96576
Clarkson Cemetery	37.55272	-84.95602
Crain Cemetery	37.62631	-85.00641
Crews Cemetery	37.55657	-84.94905
Danville Memorial Gardens	37.59424	-84.728
Danville National Cemetery	37.6529	-84.77061
Danville National Cemetery	37.65294	-84.77065
Elder Cemetery	37.53703	-84.96523
Ellis Cemetery	37.54599	-84.99757
Gray Cemetery	37.60424	-84.83606
Hillcrest Cemetery	37.64964	-84.95509
Hilldale Cemetery	37.63146	-84.76272
Kirkland Cemetery	37.54397	-84.98683
Minor Cemetery	37.55229	-84.93912
Minor Cemetery	37.56784	-85.03345
Mitchell Cemetery	37.59606	-84.93459
Perryville National Cemetery	37.67482	-84.97071
Purdom Cemetery	37.54985	-84.94547
Roller Cemetery	37.55126	-84.94848
Russell Cemetery	37.55013	-84.954
Russell Cemetery	37.66917	-85.0207
Salt River Cemetery	37.69169	-84.87205
Wilson Cemetery	37.56285	-84.88078

Historical populated places — 7 of 7

Name	Lat	Lon
Daugherty Station	37.63194	-84.73034
Fishers Station	37.65617	-84.74433
Harrods Station	37.69442	-84.83634
Hilldale	37.6296	-84.75776
Indian Hills	37.65459	-84.75504
Meuxtown	37.67828	-84.74128
Sleettown	37.67241	-84.96341

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Civil War battlefields nearby

ABPP

American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) Civil War study areas near this county.

Battlefield	Study acres	Dist.	Site ID
Perryville	12,581	10.2 km	KY009

Source: NPS American Battlefield Protection Program Civil War Study Areas (public ArcGIS feature service).

Historical markers

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