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Florence, Kentucky
Florence, Kentucky

Florence, a Boone county city about three miles southeast of Burlington, is the largest in the county. It was settled around the start of the nineteenth century and was known as Cross Roads (or Crossroads) and Polecat. A town called Maddentown, for Thomas Madden, a local land owner, was founded on the site in 1821. It was renamed Connersville for Jacob Conner in 1828 and finally incorporated as Florence in 1830. The source of that name is obscure. The post office opened in the 1820s as Connersville, switching to Florence in 1830. The population in 2010 was 29,951.

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