History
Hurstbourne is a wedding of two words; 'hurst', meaning a grove of trees, a copse, or a woods, and 'bourne meaning boundary. The individual who in the 19th Century first gave this beautiful name to the property is not known.

The history of Hurstbourne is a history of Kentucky and a young nation's growth. The development of "stations” or stockades along Beargrass Creek, in the late 18th Century, signaled the arrival of white man's civilization and the beginning of the nation's westward expansion.

The estate was purchased in 1949 by L. LeRoy Highbaugh Sr. and Jr. and the name changed to Highbaugh Farms. The Highbaughs lived in the house for a number of years. .then in 1965 began to develop the estate into a community to be known as Hurstbourne, with plans for a shopping center, offices, schools, churches, a country club complex containng a 27 hole golf course covering 240 acres, and stately Lyndon Hall as its club house. The streams, creek beds, well planned plantings and other natural features, as well as the site of Lynn's Station, its springhouse, the Anderson graveyard and old stone out-buildings, have been thoughtfully preserved and carefully incorporated into the long range planning for Hurstbourne at the request of L. Leroy Highbaugh, Jr.