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Lebanon is a home rule-class city in central Kentucky and the county seat of Marion County.

Lebanon was established in 1814 and incorporated as a city on January 28, 1815, taking its name from the biblical Lebanon because of the area's abundant cedar trees.

The founding community traces back to the Hardin's Creek Meeting House, a Presbyterian congregation established by settlers from Virginia in 1789.

Lebanon became the county seat in 1835, shortly after Marion County was created from Washington County.

In its early years Lebanon had the reputation of being "Kentucky's Philadelphia" for its style, architecture, and businesses, and it was considered as a site for the state capital.

Lebanon was a stop on the National Turnpike from Maysville to Nashville, and in 1819 Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson met in Lebanon after crossing paths on their journeys.

During the Civil War, Lebanon's position on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad made it a Union recruiting and hospital center, and Confederate general John Hunt Morgan used the Myrtledene house as his headquarters; the Battle of Lebanon was fought on July 5, 1863.

Much of Lebanon's downtown business district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and many of its brick homes date from the antebellum period.

Lebanon National Cemetery, on the southern edge of town, holds Union soldiers, including many who fell at the 1862 Battle of Perryville.

Lebanon is renowned for its Ham Days Festival and tractor show, held during the last weekend of September.