A little town with a big heart.

Carlisle and Nicholas County has been making major changes in the last few decades, renovating old buildings and making improvements to their historic courthouse that sits in the town square.

We traveled to Carlisle to learn more about what makes this quaint town so special and.

It is America to have your courthouse across the street from the main block of town.

I could go on about family stories.

My dad, when he seen my mom, my dad was sitting at a pool hall down here and he was just in a rocking chair.

Mom walked by with one of her friends and she said that he he looked and said, it looks said, well, I'll be damn.

And you know, it's funny because he was so surprised.

He thought she was thousands of miles away.

And you know, that happened right here on Main Street.

Historically, Carlisle was, a little bit of an epicenter and a hub for a lot of trade, cattle, tobacco, the railroad which connected Lexington to Maysville, where the river was, was a, a thoroughfare of commodities and people coming off of the riverboats as those legacy employees kind of got older and retired and went away.

Carlisle kind of got to be a little sleepy, but we're ready to see it kind of wake back up here at the jailers house was actually the first building that was started in the renovation of a facelift of Carlisle.

We have the the second most iron facades left in the state of Kentucky.

The reason is because people didn't think they should do anything to their property.

So when we started this project, we were laughed at and people said, they'll never finish that building.

So it was just a labor of love.

This building was given to us, by, Jane the Nails and, they wanted it to become, a museum and welcome center.

And so the founders of the historical society, came along and, worked really hard to put $1 million worth of renovation into this building.

It was the vision for this place, to be a place of community where people could come together for various, parties and events and weddings and concerts.

We both started with, you know, small businesses in the downtown area.

And I noticed this in a lot of small towns.

I think it's very important to have retail spaces because, having things for people from out of town to come do also for local, residents to come and enjoy is important for keeping, Main Street along.

I always kind of had Carlisle, kind of, you know, looking back over my shoulder.

So to speak, to say we need to go back there and do something when we can and when the opportunities, you know, started to kind of crop up with being able to get a building.

And my wife got to law school and it was like, well, that was fun.

And we rejuvenated this one.

It's like, well, let's let's do another one.

The Broadway building is where Garrett's on Broadway is.

That's, that's over on the corner.

And, the building we sold was just, it's one building over from here on Main Street, looking directly over to courthouse, and there's another building on on Main Street that we can check off that is now going to be rejuvenated.

Another beautiful building that people can see when they come into town.

It's sort of like stepping back in time, you know, and you walk down and you see the streets and you see the buildings and you see our wonderful little shops and how beautiful the courthouse square is.

This is the third courthouse, and it was built in 1893.

We have, the roof and projecting with some storm events, the, the clocks on the top of the tower.

We've been damaged.

We've we've done some re reverberation projects to that and got them back and going to have the historic flag.

There's only two of those in in the United States.

It's been it's been a big source of pride forever.

I mean the courthouse and the flag I mean obviously the courthouse is magnificent.

The charm of our town and the fact that we have not lost what a lot of cities have, and we don't have high rises, and we have just what we have, but we're proud of everything we have.

Carlisle's mayor has put a program in place to support business owners by giving them $500 to clean up and paint the exterior of their building.