Shepherdsville Pioneer Graveyard was established circa 1799 and abandoned in 1909 after a flood. Hebron Cemetery opened in northern Bullitt County in the 1890s and eventually replaced it. In 1854, a flood of the Salt River caused a cholera epidemic in Shepherdsville in which 19 persons died, and many of those victims were buried here along with many pioneer city and county leaders. After the graveyard closed, sporadic efforts to maintain it failed, and time and neglect allowed trees and brush to overtake the grounds as houses and businesses rose around it. Stones were damaged and stolen, and the graveyard faded from memory until surrounding buildings later declined and were removed, partly because of repeated Salt River floods, making way for a city park in the late 1990s and a rediscovery of the burial ground. After several restoration attempts by various groups, a renewed effort began in 2005 with the local Scottish Rite Club of Freemasonry, Mayor Joe Sohm, the Shepherdsville City Council, and The Bullitt County History Museum. Brush and trees were cleared, monuments were located, repaired, and reset, and the city of Shepherdsville assumed perpetual care in 2005. Many prominent city and county figures are buried here, including senators, doctors, county attorneys, and Civil War soldiers.