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RICHMOND AND MADISON COUNTY
Richmond, home of Eastern Kentucky University, is a part of Madison County which has a population of approximately 57,000. The city was founded July 4, 1798, and its population is over 22,000.
The city is supported by a diversified business community and has a rich historic background. Several historic sites are open to the public like White Hall, the home of Cassius Marcellus Clay, an abolitionist publisher and ambassador to Russia under President Lincoln, Fort Boonesborough State Park, the site of one of the first settlements west of the Allegheny Mountains and Bybee Pottery. Richmond is also home to the 10th largest planetarium in the United States and the second largest on a college campus in the world, the Arnim D. Hummel Planetarium and Space Theater. Located on Easterns campus, the 164-seat theater provides students and the community with a view of the sky as it would appear from any known planet or moon in our solar system.
The area is served by a local hospital, Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center.
Richmond is also about an hour and a half from Louisville to the west and about an hour and a half from Cincinnati to the north.
Madison County's second largest town, Berea, is located 12 miles south of Richmond on I-75. Madison County is surrounded by Fayette, Clark, Estill, Rockcastle, Garrard and Jessamine counties.
