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Hurstbourne is a home rule-class city in east-central Jefferson County, Kentucky, and part of the Louisville Metro Government.

The land that became Hurstbourne was part of a military grant to Henry Harrison, surveyed by John Floyd in 1774, and was first settled by Major William Linn, who built Linn's Station on Beargrass Creek in 1779.

Travelers heading to Linn's Station were the victims of the Long Run Massacre in 1781, and Linn's heirs abandoned the land claim in the 1790s.

In 1789 Colonel Richard Anderson bought 500 acres and built the Soldier's Retreat estate, whose house was damaged in the 1811 earthquake and later demolished, but whose ruins were excavated in the 1970s before the house was rebuilt by developer Leroy Highbaugh Jr., whose family moved into it in 1983.

John Jeremiah Jacob built Lyndon Hall in 1842, and the house is now part of the Hurstbourne Country Club's clubhouse.

The Hert family acquired the property in 1915 and renamed it Hurstbourne, and Hurstbourne Parkway was created in 1935.

Known as Highbaugh Farms by 1965, the property began developing into homes and businesses as Louisville expanded eastward.

Hurstbourne was incorporated as a city in 1982 specifically to prevent annexation by Louisville, and nearly all of its available land had been developed by 1990.

The city is bounded by Shelbyville Road (U.S. Route 60) to the north, Hurstbourne Parkway to the east and Interstate 64 to the south, and the I-64 and Hurstbourne Parkway junction area serves as one of Louisville's edge cities of office parks, shopping centers and an industrial park.

Hurstbourne covers about 1.81 square miles.