Interior of Rotunda
This file appears in: Bourbon County, 1786
The murals depicting the seasons of autumn and summer are pictured together in this photograph. Autumn shows the harvesting of tobacco, while summer shows a mule drawn bluegrass stripper, stripping the seeds from the mature grass. Bluegrass seed was an important Bourbon County agricultural product. Photograph courtesy of Rogers Bardé.
This file appears in: Bourbon County, 1786
Bourbon County, 1786
Historical Marker #1246 in Paris commemorates Bourbon County's origins and its courthouses.
There are no surviving images of the first courthouse located on this spot, but the Bourbon County court required a frame building with a shingled…