Fredonia, Kentucky

Fredonia is a Caldwell county city about 13 miles northwest of Princeton near the boundaries with Crittenden and Lyon counties. It was established in 1836 by Harvey Washington Bigham and named for his daughter.

Fredonia was incorporated in 1869.

The Fredonia post office opened in 1836. Another post office, Fredonia Depot, opened just south of Fredonia in 1889 in a community known as South Fredonia that was established in 1886 on the new Ohio Valley Railroad. The South Fredonia post office was renamed Kelsey in 1890, for P. G. Kelsey, the president of the railroad. The original Fredonia post office closed in 1906 and the Kelsey post office took the Fredonia name.

The population in 2020 was 376.

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