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Wilmore is a Jessamine county town at the junction of KY 29 and KY 1268 about three miles west of Nicholasville. The town began as Scott's Station in 1876 on the Cincinnati-Southern Railroad and the Wilmore post office opened there in 1877. John Scott and John Wilmore were local land owners. The population in 1990 was 4,215. Wilmore is the home of Asbury College, which began as Kentucky Holiness College in 1890, and Asbury Theological Seminary, which originated as part of the college in 1923. |
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