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Carrollton is a home rule-class city and the county seat of Carroll County in northern Kentucky.

The city stands at the confluence of the Kentucky River and the Ohio River, a location reflected in its motto, Where Rivers and People Meet.

Carrollton was laid out in 1792 as Port William and was incorporated under that name in 1794.

Port William served as the seat of Gallatin County until Carroll County was created in 1838, when the town was renamed Carrollton for Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, and became the new county's seat.

The town's first newspaper, the Carrollton Crier, began publication in 1848.

On September 3, 1863, Confederate troops robbed the Southern Bank of Kentucky in Carrollton and made off with the sword of prominent resident General William Orlando Butler, who later caught up with the raiders and recovered it.

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad reached Carrollton in 1868 and eventually surpassed river traffic in importance, spurring a tobacco boom; the city long hosted one of Kentucky's largest tobacco markets.

Carrollton's worst flood came in 1937, when the Ohio River crested at 79.9 feet.

The 1988 Carrollton bus disaster drew national attention as one of the worst bus collisions in United States history.

Carrollton's population has been remarkably stable, recorded at 3,884 in the 1970 census and 3,890 in the 2020 census, when its residents lived in 1,536 households.