Pembroke, Kentucky
Pembroke is a Christian county city just southeast of Hopkinsville on US 41. It was named for Pembroke Somerset, a character in Thaddeus of Warsaw, an 1803 novel. (The city of Warsaw in Gallatin county was named for the novel a few years earlier.)
Pembroke was incorporated in 1869.
The Pembroke post office opened in 1836.
The population in 2020 was 855.
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