​HOPKINSVILLE, a city and the county-seat of Christian county, Kentucky, U.S.A., about 150 m. S.W. of Louisville. Pop. (1890) 5833, (1900) 7280 (3243, negroes); (1910) 9419. The city is served by the Illinois Central and the Louisville & Nashville railways. It is the seat of Bethel Female College (Baptist, founded 1854), of South Isentucky College (Christian, co-educational, chartered 1849) and of the Vestern Kentucky Asylum for the Insane. The city's chief interest is in the tobacco industry; it has also considerable trade in other agricultural products and in coal, and its manufactures include carriages and wagons, bricks, lime, flour and dressed lumber When Christian county was formed from Logan county in 1797, Hopkinsville, formerly called Elizabethtown, became the county seat, and was renamed in honour of Samuel Hopkins (c. 17 50-X819), an ofncer of the Continental Army in the War of Independence, a pioneer settler in Kentucky, and a representative in Congress from Kentucky in 1813-1815. In X798 Hopkinsville was incorporated.