SMITHS GROVE KENTUCKY
SMITHS GROVE, KENTUCKY INCORPORATED MARCH 21, 1871.
WARREN COUNTY WAS CREATED IN 1796 OF LOGAN COUNTY, AND NAMED FOR GENERAL
JOSEPH WARREN ONE OF THE FIRST TO GIVE HIS LIFE IN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
AND WHO FELL AT THE BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL. WARREN COUNTY CONTAINS ABOUT
545 SQUARE MILES. IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY THE HUNDRED SQUARE
MILES NORTHEAST OF BOWLING GREEN AND SOUTH OF THE GREEN RIVER WAS KNOWN
SIMPLY AS, SMITHS GROVE, COUNTRY. THE TOWN WAS NAMED, FOR A GROVE OF TREES,
WEST OF TOWN AT THE BASE OF A SMALL KNOB BY AN ORIGINAL LANDOWNER.SMITHS
GROVE'S SOUTHERN BOUNDARY BECOME THE SITE OF A FULL INTERCHANGE OF
INTERSTATE 65 FINISHED IN FALL OF 1977, THE COMMUNITY SAW MODEST INTERSTATE
GROWTH, THE 1980 CENSUS REPORTED THAT THE COMMUNITY HAD GROWN TO A RECORD
HIGH. 1992 SAW THE RE-BIRTH OF A NEW ECONOMIC BASE IN THE COMMUNITY, THE
SMITHS GROVE ANTIQUE DISTRICT. THIS NEW FOUND TOURIST ATTRACTION DRAWS
SEVERAL THOUSAND VISITORS TO
SMITHS GROVE
LOCATION 10 MILES NORTH OF BOWLING GREEN EXIT 38 OFF I 65
