Anchorage

Anchorage is a city in eastern Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 2,264 at the 2000 census. The land that is now Anchorage was a part of Isaac Hite's 1773 land grant, which awarded most of the land in today's Jefferson county to officers in the Virginia militia, in exchange for their service in the French and Indian War. Early maps refer to the area as Hite's Mill. Part of his original grant now makes up the grounds of Central State Hospital and E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park. The nautical name is a bit odd, considering the city is over twelve miles from the Ohio River. The origin is The Anchorage, home of riverboat captain and early resident James W. Goslee, and was chosen to honor him when the city...