East Union is an unincorporated community in Nicholas County, Kentucky, United States. It lies along Route 57 south north of the city of Carlisle, the county seat of Nicholas County.[1] Its elevation is 853 feet (260 m).[2]
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East Union was once known as Bramlett with a post office. The village had a physician, Dr. Buntin, Class of 1890, Louisville School of Medicine. The only church there is the East Union Christian Church, the second oldest active Christian Church in the US. There was once a grist mill located along Somerset Creek below the settlement. The cemetery has soldiers from the Civil War from the North and the South. Notables buried there include but is not limited to Peter Hon (1791–1876). Hon was a well known evangelist among the Christian churches. In his life he baptized approximately 5,000 people. East Union is near the Concord Christian Church in Nicholas County and the Cane Ridge Meeting House in Bourbon County.
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