Carpenter's Station, Kentucky, originally "Carpenter's Fort", was established about 2 miles (3 km) west of present-day Hustonville, Kentucky, by three Carpenter brothers, George Carpenter, John Carpenter, and Adam Carpenter, who came to the site from Rockingham County, Virginia, in the summer of 1779. The brothers were of Germanic descent, sons of George Zimmerman (which Anglicizes to Carpenter), who was born c. 1720 in Switzerland, emigrated to Pennsylvania colony around 1740, and settled in Rockingham County, Virginia, before the American Revolutionary War.
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