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Named for Peter A'Sturgus, early Kentucky pioneer, who settled on 2,000 acre tract of land surveyed, 1774, and granted to Col. William Christian by patent dated June 2, 1780. One of the five important pioneer stations on Middle Fork of Beargrass Creek shown on John Filson's 1784 map. In 1780 it was a considerable fort and settlement of some twenty to forty families. Photograph courtesy of Kitty Taylor Return to Jefferson County marker listing