Ghent

Ghent is a home rule-class city along the south bank of the Ohio River in Carroll County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 323 at the 2010 census.GeographyGhent is located in northeastern Carroll County at, along the Ohio River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9km2, all land. The community is located on U.S. Route 42 at Kentucky Route 47. Ghent is north of Interstate 71.Ghent is on the opposite side of the Ohio River from Vevay, Indiana, but the towns are not linked by a bridge.HistoryGhent was settled at the end of eighteenth century and was first known as McCool's Creek Settlement. The town was laid out in 1814. Henry Clay is alleged to have suggested the name, derived from the city of Ghent (then part of the Netherlands and now part of Belgium), where the treaty ending the War of 1812 was signed between the United States and the United Kingdom on Christmas Eve, 1814. Ghent's post office opened in 1816. On January 17, 1839, the Kentucky General Assembly formally established the city of Ghent and appointed Theodoric Fisher, Samuel Sanders Jr., James Knox, John C. Lindsey, and Richard Sarlls as its trustees.