Corydon, KY

Corydon is a Henderson County home-rule city where the 2020 census counted 737 residents. John and William Dorsey settled the place in 1849, and Patsy Dorsey gave it the name Corydon after a figure from the nineteenth-century song Pastoral Elegy. The town incorporated in 1867, then grew through a mix of farming, commerce, coal, and rail. A mine opened in 1884, and the first Ohio Valley Railroad train arrived in 1886, bringing a bigger connection to the Ohio River valley.

U.S. 60 serves as Corydon's Main Street, running nine miles northeast to Henderson and 13 miles southwest to Morganfield. That road keeps the city in the everyday traffic of western Kentucky, while its old railroad and coal chapters remain part of the local memory. The Dorsey family store, the post office, early schools, and later railroad offices helped turn a small settlement into a service town. Corydon now carries the feel of a compact city whose streets still follow the routes that made it useful.