GLASGOW, Ky. (WBKO) — Around the year 1800, as Kentucky’s young frontier counties took shape, Barren County built its first courthouse, a modest log structure near what is now Washington Street, with no chinking between the logs and a clapboard roof.

It wasn’t much, but it represented something profound: a place where justice, order, and community began to take root.

“Technically, the very first court in Barren County was held in a private home,” said local historian Sam Terry. “It was in William Rennick’s house, which was nine miles east of Glasgow.”

From those humble beginnings, the courthouse quickly evolved alongside the county it served.

Within a few years, officials built a second structure, known locally as the Buckeye Courthouse for its hewn buckeye logs and shingled roof. Meas

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