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Market Review | Bullitt County, Ky.: Where bourbon kicks off

Bullitt County opened a new visitors center last year that now attracts 150 to 200 people per month, up from 12 visitors a month.
Bullitt County opened a new visitors center last year that now attracts 150 to 200 people per month, up from 12 visitors a month.

As home of the Jim Beam American Stillhouse, Bullitt County was named an “official trailhead” of the Kentucky Bourbon Trail in 2013. Visitors can tour the Jim Beam distillery, the Four Roses warehouse and bottling facility, plus four wineries in the county and get a passport stamped on the Wine and Whiskey Trail, then stop by the new Bullitt County Visitor Center, which opened in July 2016, to redeem the passport for a souvenir glass. The previous center was hard to find and averaged 10 to 12 visitors a month; now 150 to 200 people are visiting the Bullitt County Visitor Center to learn about bourbon, the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, the world’s largest go-kart track at Kart Kountry, and the 40,000 s.f. of meeting space at Paroquet Springs Conference Centre.

Paroquet Springs was a body of water developed in Shepherdsville in 1838. Near the Salt River, the healing properties of the mineral water in the springs was a tourist draw until the Civil War. Shepherdsville was founded on Dec. 11, 1793, and Bullitt County on Jan. 1, 1797.

County Seat:

Shepherdsville

Curtis Hockenbury, Mayor

shepherdsville.net

Estimated 2017 population:

84,218

No. of households: 28,267

Median household income:

$54,755

Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce:

Dan Cline, president

bullittchamber.org

Bullitt County Economic Development Authority:

John Snider, executive director

gobullittky.com

Judge-Executive: Melanie Roberts

bullittcountyfc.com

Shepherdsville-Bullitt County Tourism:

Troy Beam, executive director

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