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Boyd Station, an early Kentucky settlement on the South Fork of the Licking River, 11 ½ miles NNW of the current day city of Cynthiana, the county seat of Harrison County.
On December 8, 1854, on the site of a watermill built by Whitehead Coleman in 1810, Thomas Boyd established a trading post which he named Boyd’s Station in honor of Andrew Boyd, Sr., an early Kentucky settler. Within a short time it became a coal and water supply station on the Covington and Lexington railroad and the village grew up around the station. In 1880, the outpost became simply Boyd, which name it bore until it closed.
Harrison county was formed in 1794. It is located in the Bluegrass region of the state. The elevation in the county ranges from 540 to 1060 feet above sea level. In 2000 the county population was 17,983 in a land area of 309.68 square miles, an average of 58.1 people per square mile. The county seat is Cynthiana.
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