Mount Washington, Kentucky

It was formally established in 1822 as Mount Vernon, after President George Washington's Virginia home, but it was unable to continue using the name because another town's post ...

At the time of its (first) formal incorporation as a city in 1833, the town's name was changed to "Mount Washington", again in honor of the first United States president.

In the autumn of 1862, during the Civil War, the town was held by John Wharton's Confederate cavalry, who skirmished with Maj.

Through the nineteenth century, a two-room school building stood on the southern end of Bardstown Road (now Highway 31E), but in 1916 a new building consisting of four classroom...

The decline continued when fire burned much of the business district on November 18, 1940.

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Washington Middle School had to expand and remodel in 1995 because the population was growing tremendously, and now supports over 200 classrooms and offices.

The events of the final call of the strip search phone call scam took place in Mount Washington in 2004.

That project was completed in 2006.

== Demographics == As of the census of 2020, there were 18,485 people, 4,111 households, and 2,945 families residing in the city.