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Transportation
Public transportation is limited -- RTEC provides public service to Campbellsville/Taylor County. There are several private taxi companies.

Founding
Campbellsville was established by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1817. The town plat, registered in the Green County records in 1820, contained 85 lots and a public square where a courthouse was later built. Campbellsville was designated by the state legislature as the county seat in 1848 after Taylor County was separated from Green County.

Founder
Campbellsville was named for Andrew Campbell who made the first town plat and began selling lots in Campbellsville in 1814. Campbell was one of five brothers who migrated here from Augusta County, Virginia. Andrew Campbell owned a gristmill and a tavern.

Growth
School: The first school was established in 1836 when Adam Campbell sold land on Buckhorn Creek.

In the 1830s, Campbellsville served as a stagecoach stop on the National Mail Route between Zanesville, Ohio and Florence, Alabama. The stage lines connecting Lebanon, Campbellsville, Columbia, and Greensburg became feeder lines to the railroad when it came to Lebanon in the 1850s. After a rail spur between Lebanon and Greensburg was opened by the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad in 1879, Campbellsville entered a new era of development.

By 1890, the population reached 1,018. By 1892, a flour mill, saw mill, and a woolen and carding mill were operating as well as a lumber company, bank, newspaper and two hotels.

By 1914, Campbellsville had an electrical power company, gas company, and water works. Fires in 1911 and 1914 destroyed many of the town’s early buildings.

In 1948, the Union Underwear Company came to Campbellsville and spurred economic growth. By 1989, the plant that manufactured Fruit of the Loom products was the world’s largest producer of men and boys’ underwear and the second largest textile plant in the U.S. The plant closed in 1998.