Bracken County
| Bracken County, Kentucky | |
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Bracken County Courthouse in Brooksville
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 Location in the U.S. state of Kentucky |
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 Kentucky's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | 1796 |
| Named for | William Bracken |
| Seat | Brooksville |
| Largest city | Augusta |
| Area | |
| • Total | 209 sq mi (541 km2) |
| • Land | 206 sq mi (534 km2) |
| • Water | 3.3 sq mi (9 km2), 1.6% |
| Population | |
| • (2010) | 8,488 |
| • Density | 41/sq mi (16/km²) |
| Congressional district | 4th |
| Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5/-4 |
| Website | www |
Bracken County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. As of the 2010 census, the population was 8,488. Its county seat is Brooksville. The county was formed in 1796.
Bracken County is included in the Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Bracken County was organized as Kentucky's 23rd county in 1796 from parts of Mason and Campbell counties. It was named after two creeks, the Big and Little Bracken, which in turn were named for William Bracken, an 18th-century explorer and surveyor who visited the area in 1773. He was later killed by Indians during the Northwest Indian War. The county originally extended to southern Nicholas County, north to the Ohio River, west to the Licking River and east to Dover, Kentucky.
Several early settlers were veterans of the American Revolutionary War, including Captain Abner Howell, who brought his family came from Pennsylvania. He died in Bracken County in 1797.
The county government moved from Augusta to Woodward's Crossing (now Brooksville) in 1833.
Bracken was the birthplace of John Gregg Fee, founder of Berea College and Kentucky's most noted abolitionist. He was a graduate of Augusta College and Lane Theological Seminary. In 1822 Augusta College was founded as the first Methodist college in the world.
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