Home The Old Shelby County Courthouse was constructed in 1913. The Shelby County Historical Society's Museum built in 1872 Shelby News Printing House Bridge near Hall & Stewart Lumber Co. 1847 Shelby County Courthouse Science Hill graduating class, 1937 – 1938 Page from The Shelby Sentinel, April 9, 1946 The Allen & Bell Coal Company poster 1904 view of downtown Shelbyville, KY Hubert and Ollie Ford standing in front of their home in Christiansburg Major General James Franklin Bell served in the United States Army from 1878–1919 and as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1906 – 1910 The Marquis de Lafayette attended a ball in Shelbyville during his 1825 Grand Tour A postcard scene of Science Hill Female Academy, 1825- 1939 slide2 slide3 slide4 slide5 slide6 slide7 slide8 slide9 slide10 slide11 slide12 slide13 slide14 Upcoming Events 19 Aug Pulling up Roots: Moving to the Kentucky Frontier in the Midst of War Price: 0 Learn about Painted Stone Station and the early Kentucky frontier from Nancy O’Malley, archaeologist who surveyed and studied the site in Shelby County, KY. Museum Information Open to the public, free admission 627 Main St., Shelbyville, KY 40065 Contact Us +1 (502) 513-5555 Museum Times Wednesday – Friday 10AM to 4PM Saturday – 10AM to 2PM Or by appointment Store Shelbyville Fountain Notecards (pack of 10) $10.00 Add to cart The Incredible Adventures of Daniel Boone’s Kid Brother – Squire Boone $7.00 Add to cart The Shelby Record: Some Old Time History of Shelbyville & Shelby County $11.00 Add to cart Down Memory’s Lane: An Autobiography by Sarah Posey Brown $13.00 Add to cart Walter H. Kiser’s Neighborhood Sketches Revisited $85.00 Add to cart Historical Architecture of Shelby County, Kentucky, 1791 – 1915 $69.00 Add to cart The Shelby: Stories of Shelby County’s Good Land, Good People, Good Living (2021) $18.00 Add to cart Political Quickstep: The Life of Kentucky’s Colonel Charles S. Todd $32.00 Add to cart John Floyd The Life & Letters of a Frontier Surveyor $25.00 Add to cart Pathways to the Future $8.00 Add to cart Shouts & Whispers From the Past $8.00 Add to cart The Shelby Historian, 2022 $13.00 Add to cart A Living History: Shelby County, KY 2011 $59.00 Add to cart Portrait of the Past, A Pictorial History of Shelby County, Kentucky 1865 – 1980 $59.00 Add to cart Historic Kentucky Postcard Art 1900-2013 $31.00 Add to cart