Hensley Settlement | |
 Brush Mountain School House Hensley Settlement | |
  Hensley Settlement, Kentucky  Hensley Settlement, Kentucky | |
| Location | Bell County, Kentucky |
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| Coordinates | 36°40′10″N 83°31′42″W / 36.66944°N 83.52833°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 80000367[1] |
| Added to NRHP | January 8, 1980 |
Hensley Settlement is an Appalachian living history museum on Brush Mountain, Bell County, Kentucky in the United States. The settlement is part of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and it is located approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of the park visitor center on Ridge Trail.
The settlement contains twelve homestead log cabins, a one-room school house, and a blacksmith shop. A restored spring house on the property was used by the settlement as food storage. The settlement began in 1903 when brothers-in-law Sherman Hensley and Willy Gibbons settled their families on plots from acreage purchased by Barton Hensely Sr. Most inhabitants belonged to either the Hensley or Gibbons families. The settlement never developed modern infrastructure or technology.
The last resident was Sherman Hensley, who left in 1951. The school, together with some forty-five settlement structures and the agricultural environment, were restored to their original state in the 1960s by the Job Corps.