Warren County was formed in 1796 and named to honor General Joseph Warren who dispatched William Dawes and Paul Revere on their midnight ride to warn that the British were coming. He was also a hero during the Revolutionary War in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Bowling Green was officially established in 1798.

Today Bowling Green is the fourth largest city in Kentucky and is located within a day's travel of nearly 50 percent of the U.S. The city made it to the list of the “Best Small Places for Business” in the 2006 edition of Forbes Magazine.

General Motors moved its Corvette plant here in 1981 and an annual National Corvette Homecoming honors this event in August. In 1994 the National Corvette Museum was constructed and can be toured as well as the plant. The Plant added the construction of the Cadillac XLR to its business in 2003.

Several other industries call Bowling Green home such as: Fruit of the Loom, Holley Performance Products, Eagle Industries, Pan-Oston, DESA Heating, Camping World, Weyerhauser, SCA, Trace Die Cast, Bowling Green Metalforming a division of Magna International, and Houchens Industries, Inc. This is just the tip of our industry base.

Western Kentucky University (WKU Hilltoppers) is the 3rd largest public university in Kentucky and is located in Bowling Green as well. It was founded in 1906 when Henry Hardin Cherry, the president and owner, donated the school to the state as the basis of Western Kentucky State Normal School, now WKU.

Bowling Green is the county seat of Warren County, but the county is also comprised of four incorporated cities known as Smiths Grove, Plum Springs, Woodburn and Oakland and five rural unincorporated areas known as Richardsville, Rockfield, Alvaton, Plano and Richpond.