Wakefield, Kentucky
Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States
Unincorporated community in Kentucky, United States
37°58′19″N 85°18′29″W / 37.97194°N 85.30806°W / 37.97194; -85.30806[1]
Wakefield is an unincorporated community in Spencer County, Kentucky, United States. Wakefield lies on Kentucky Route 55 midway between Taylorsville and Bloomfield.
Wakefield was named after Wakefield Farm, a nineteenth-century homestead. William Clarke Quantrill, a Confederate raid leader, was ambushed and killed by Union troops at Wakefield Farm in May 1865.
Country musician Bill Carlisle was born at Wakefield in 1908.
Footnotes
- ^ Wakefield at HomeTownLocator
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