Anchorage, Kentucky

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Local Information for Anchorage, KY

Latitude: 38.26537 -- Longitude: -85.537571

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Anchorage is a city in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,264 at the 2000 census. According to the 2004 census, the city had a population of 2,500. The land that is now Anchorage was a part of Isaac Hite's 1773 land grant, which awarded most of the land in today's Jefferson County to officers in the Virginia militia, in exchange for their service in the French and Indian War. Early maps refer to the area as Hite's Mill. Part of his original grant now makes up the grounds of Central State Hospital and E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park. The nautical name is a bit odd, considering the city is over twelve miles from the Ohio River. It is taken from the name of the home of riverboat captain James W. Goslee, and was chosen to honor him when the city incorporated in 1878, three years after his death. Tradition says that an anchor hanging inside the rim of a locomotive wheel at the center of town was taken by Goslee from his ship, the Matamora. -- Source: Wikipedia.com