The Shelby County Historical Society was organized in 1963 and since that time has been instrumental in stimulating the interest of the citizens of Shelby County in learning more about their heritage and the county’s prominent role in Kentucky and American history.

The Society takes the lead in identifying historic sites and landmark homes. Reflective of these ongoing efforts was the dedication in 2003 of a marker adjacent to the Stanley-Casey House on Washington Street, the boyhood home of former Kentucky Governor Augustus O. Stanley. The Society also published Cemeteries of Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1979 which reflected a serious effort to rediscover neglected burial sites through the county.

In 2003 the Society published The New History of Shelby County, which was nominated by the Southern Kentucky Book Fair for the best non-fiction book published in Kentucky that year.

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