This 5th class city with post office on the Illinois Central Gulf RR is centered at the junction of US 60 and KY 358, 9 mi ne of Wickliffe. It was laid out in 1903 on part of Margaret Davis's 300-acre farm and first called Maryville for her daughter. That year Percy A. Jones requested a po to be named LaCentre since Maryville was already in use, but had to settle for an anglicized form of the name that dnoted the town's location in the approximate center of Ballard County. The post office opened on October 21, 1903 with Jones as its first postmaster. Some historians believe that the name LaCentre had been suggested by Stokes T. Payne, a local land developer, in anticipation of another shift in the county's seat.
Ballard Rural Telephone
- Last Update Tuesday August 19th
