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Owensboro is a home rule-class city [4] in and the county seat of [5] Daviess County, Kentucky, United States.It is the fourth-most populous city in the state. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about 107 miles (172 km) southwest of Louisville, and is the principal city of the Owensboro metropolitan area.
The Odd Fellows Building in Owensboro, Kentucky, also denoted DAOB 86, is a three-story building that was built in 1895. It served historically as a professional building, as a clubhouse, and as a specialty store. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Northern terminus of KY 2120: Owensboro: 159.086: 256.024: KY 311 north – Downtown Owensboro, GRADD, Owensboro Riverport: Western end of Wendell H. Ford Expressway: 159.477: 256.653: Audubon Parkway west – Henderson: Western terminus of Audubon Parkway; US 60 exit 10, Audubon Parkway exit 23: 160.240: 257.881: KY 81 (West Parrish Avenue ...
Kentucky Route 2831 (KY 2831) is a 3.056-mile (4.918 km) state highway in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky. It runs from U.S. Routes 60 and 431 in southern Owensboro to West Fifth Street ( KY 2245 ) and Frederica Streets in downtown.
From 1929 until 1953, the US 431 corridor in Kentucky was originally signed as Kentucky Routes 75 and 81. KY 75 ran from Owensboro to KY 81 at South Carrollton, while KY 81 ran its current course, plus the rest of US 431's original route from South Carrollton into Central City and Russellville to the Tennessee state line. [ 6 ]
The interior retains the original counter and ice cream booths and the walls are covered with enlargements of postcards from the early 1900s showing early scenes of downtown Owensboro." [2] It was deemed significant as "having the only surviving example of complete terracotta tile fronts in downtown Owensboro.
Kentucky's regions (click on image for color-coding information) Kentucky can be divided into five primary regions: the Cumberland Plateau in the east, which contains much of the historic coal mines; the north-central Bluegrass region, where the major cities and the state capital (Frankfort) are located; the south-central and western Pennyroyal Plateau (also known as the Pennyrile or ...
The Owensboro Bridge, also called the Blue Bridge, [2] [3] is a continuous truss bridge that spans the Ohio River between Owensboro, Kentucky and Spencer County, Indiana. Dedicated to the memory of the late U.S. Congressman Glover H. Cary (1885–1936) and often called the "Glover Cary Bridge," the bridge opened to traffic in September 1940.