Lebanon Junction: Born Where the Tracks Split
Near Bardstown, Kentucky
Lebanon Junction exists because of one decision made by railroad surveyors in the eighteen fifties. When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad pushed south through Bullitt County, engineers needed a switching point where trains bound for Lebanon, Kentucky could peel off the main line. That junction became the town's reason for being.
The branch was completed by March of eighteen fifty-eight, and workers came to man the terminal, refuel steam engines, and handle the switching. The city was formally incorporated on April first, eighteen ninety-five. The flat land beside the Rolling Fork offered natural advantages: easy water access and room to build maintenance yards.
Today Lebanon Junction is a quiet Bullitt County community, but its name still maps exactly to what it always was.
