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Shepherdsville is a home rule-class city on the Salt River in Bullitt County, Kentucky, and serves as the county seat.

The area was first known to European Americans as Bullitt's Lick, for salt licks discovered by surveyor Capt. Thomas Bullitt in 1773, and it was home to Kentucky's first commercial salt works.

The town grew around the mill and store built by Adam Shepherd, who purchased 900 acres along the Salt River, and it is named in his honor.

Shepherdsville received its charter on December 11, 1793, and it became the seat of Bullitt County when the county was formed in 1796.

During the Civil War, Union troops guarded the railroad bridge over the Salt River at Shepherdsville against sabotage.

The Paroquet Springs mineral-water spa opened in Shepherdsville in 1836 and drew visitors who believed its waters had medicinal properties; water from the springs was bottled and sold until 1915.

In late December 1917, a two-train collision at Shepherdsville killed about 50 people and remains the deadliest train wreck in Kentucky history.

The 2020 census counted 14,201 residents in Shepherdsville, living in 5,462 households.

Shepherdsville is the second-largest city in Bullitt County, behind Mount Washington, and lies about 20 miles south of downtown Louisville on Interstate 65.

Shepherdsville has grown rapidly as a Louisville commuter suburb, rising from 4,805 residents in 1990 to 14,201 in 2020 after the Kentucky Turnpike (now I-65) made commuting easy.