Anchorage, KY is an eastern Jefferson county town founded in the 1840s by Edward D. Hobbs, president of the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad. The post office opened as Hobbs Station in 1865, but was renamed Anchorage in 1872 for the home of James W. Goslee, a retired riverboat captain. The post office has since closed. The population in 2000 was 2,264.
Local tradition says the community was named for the retirement of riverboat captain James W. Goslee, who removed the anchor from his boat and planted it in his front yard.
Anchorage - a community dedicated to family, neighbors, its schools, the environment, its pets, and horses - is more than a place to drop anchor. Anchorage is a safe harbor: a twenty-year stay is common; fifty years is not uncommon.
riverboat captain James W. Goslee, who removed the anchor from his boat and planted it in his front yard.
