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Washington, Kentucky
Washington, Kentucky

Washington is a Mason county community about three miles south of the Ohio river, now part of Maysville. It was settled beginning about 1775 and laid out as a town in 1785. It was named for George Washington. Washington was made the seat of Mason county, Virginia when it was formed in 1789. (In 1848 the county seat was moved to nearby Maysville.) Washington is now sometimes called Old Washington.

Washington was incorporated in 1962 and was annexed by Maysville in 1990.

The Washington Court House post office opened in 1794.

The population in 1990, before annexation by Maysville, was 795.

In 1790, with a population of 462, Washington was the second largest town in Kentucky, after Lexington, and was the third largest in 1800.

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