GEORGETOWN, a town of Kentucky, U.S.A., 65m. E. of Louisville; the county seat of Scott county. It is on Federal highway 25, and is served by the Frankfort and Cincinnati and the Southern railways. The population was 3,904 in 1920; 4,229 in 193o. It is the seat of Georgetown college (Baptist), char tered in 1829 as the successor of an academy founded in 1789. A remarkable spring in the centre of the town has a flow of 200,000 gal. an hour, and furnishes power for the street railway and various factories, as well as the municipal water-supply. Georgetown was settled in 1775, and was called at first McClellan's and then Leb anon, until in 1790 it was incorporated under its present name in honour of George Washington.