SPIRITED SMALL TOWN
Aug 13, 2019
3 minutes
BY Elizabeth Bonner Czapski
PHOTOGRAPHY BY John O‘Hagan
Through the years, the unassuming community of Bardstown, Kentucky, has earned many flattering labels: the most beautiful small town in America; the best place in the South to raise a family; and, its official title, the Bourbon Capital of the World. While these monikers paint an eclectic picture, it is Bardstown’s great appreciation for its history that binds this array of evolving qualities. From six bourbon distilleries and counting to a downtown district with almost 200 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, Bardstown embraces
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