Perryville is small historic village in north central Kentucky that was founded in 1817 by settlers from Virginia.
The village was named after Cmdr. Oliver Hazard Perry, a war hero from the Battle of 1812. The village is known for its historic Merchants Row, a series of original buildings from the town’s founding that sit perched on the edge of the Chaplin River, a tributary of the Salt River. It is also the site of the Battle of Perryville from the American Civil War. A loss for the Confederate Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith, it effectively ended the Confederacy’s military campaign in the State of Kentucky.
