Editing Brandenburg, Kentucky (section)

==History==
[[File:Brandenburg Morgan marker.jpg|thumb|left|Historical marker noting [[John Hunt Morgan]]'s activities at Brandenburg]]
Brandenburg was built on a {{convert|3000|acre|km2|adj=on}} tract of land called "Falling Springs", purchased in 1804 by Solomon Brandenburg. He opened a tavern around which the community grew. In 1825, the community became the seat of Meade County, but it wasn't formally incorporated by the [[Kentucky Assembly|state assembly]] until March 28, 1872.<ref>Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Brandenburg, Kentucky". Accessed 22 July 2013.</ref>

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], [[Confederate States Army|Confederate]] General [[John Hunt Morgan]] crossed at Brandenburg to start his raid into [[Indiana]] in July 1863. During the [[Battle of Brandenburg Crossing]], two men on the Indiana side of the river were killed by cannon fire from Brandenburg. A [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] gunship was deployed to block the crossing, but it ran out of ammunition and Morgan and his men were able to pass into Indiana.

Brandenburg was devastated by an [[1974 Brandenburg tornado|F5 tornado]] during the [[1974 Super Outbreak|Super Outbreak of April 3, 1974]]. The tornado had touched down near [[Hardinsburg, Kentucky|Hardinsburg]] and as it moved to the northeast grew into a half-mile wide wedge tornado, striking Brandenburg head on. The tornado killed 31 people and injured 270, with all but three of the fatalities and most of the injuries occurring at Brandenburg. 128 homes and 30 businesses were also destroyed.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.weather.gov/lmk/tornado_climatology_meade | title=Tornado Climatology of Meade County }}</ref> There was no early [[tornado warning|warning]] from [[civil defense siren|tornado siren]]s or [[National Weather Service#Product dissemination|NOAA Weather Wire Service]] about the storm. About an hour after the storm, the same supercell spawned an F4 tornado that formed in the southwest part of Louisville in [[Jefferson County, Kentucky|Jefferson County]] near [[Kosmosdale, Louisville|Kosmosdale]]. Three people lost their lives in this storm, but it also left two hundred and seven injuries. The Brandenburg tornado remains as the only F5/EF5 tornado in Kentucky state history since official record keeping began in 1950, although later that day another F5 that hit Cincinnati, Ohio crossed the Ohio River from Indiana into Kentucky then into Ohio.

The [[Confederate Monument in Louisville]] was relocated to Brandenburg in late 2017 and rededicated in 2018.