If you see smoke coming from a barn while driving the rural landscape of southern Todd County, think twice before calling 911! These barns are housing tobacco. Fire-cured tobacco is hung in large barns where fires of hardwoods are kept on continuous or intermittent low smolder. Pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, and snuff are fire cured.
Built in 1835, the Old Todd County Courthouse on Public Square in Elkton is the 2nd oldest standing courthouse in Kentucky. It now serves as the Todd County Welcome Center.
Founded in 1958, the Guthrie community of “electric” New Order Amish is the oldest Amish settlement in Kentucky, originating from Stuarts Draft, Virginia.