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The Irvington Historic District in Irvington, Kentucky is a 12.6 acres (5.1 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is roughly bounded by CSX tracks, Third, Caroline and Walnut Streets. It included 20 contributing buildings, 12 contributing structures, and three contributing sites ...
The local post office was first established as Merino (for the nearby Mt. Merino Seminary) on February 16, 1885. However, two area businessmen, R.M. Jolly and Edgar L. Bennett, anticipating the route of the Louisville, St. Louis, and Texas Railroad, purchased 315 acres (127 ha) of farmland at the site and then, with the help of the railroad's employees, platted a new community over the 1888 ...
Map of the Trace. The Trace was created by millions of migrating bison that were numerous in the region from the Great Lakes to the Piedmont of North Carolina. [2] It was part of a greater buffalo migration route that extended from present-day Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky, through Bullitt's Lick, south of present-day Louisville, and across the Falls of the Ohio River to Indiana, then ...
Brad Maurice Kelley (born 1956) is an American businessman who is the 9th largest landowner in the U.S., [1] with an estimated net worth of US$2.2 billion in 2018. [2] He founded the Commonwealth Brands tobacco company in 1991 and sold the company in 2001 to Houchens Industries for US$1 billion. [3]
The company stated its interest in using the facility to launch horseracing operations on the site, making New Hampshire the fourth state in which Churchill Downs would operate horse racing. [ 47 ] In February 2022, Churchill Downs announced their agreement to purchase Peninsula Pacific Entertainment for $2.5bn (£1.84bn/€2.19bn).
The Walpole Company, Indiana Company, and members of the Ohio Company reorganized, and on December 22, 1769, formed the Grand Ohio Company. [14] In 1772, the Grand Ohio Company received from the British government a grant of a large tract lying along the southern bank of the Ohio as far west as the mouth of the Scioto River . [ 15 ]
City, state Notes Brook, Indiana: Brookston, Indiana: I.O.O.F. Lodge (Chesterton, Indiana) c.1905 built 1999 NRHP CP Chesterton, Indiana: Contributing in Chesterton Commercial Historic District: Calumet Lodge IOOF Lodge No. 601 1916 177-79 State St. Hammond, Indiana Morgantown, Indiana: Contributing in Morgantown Historic District (Morgantown ...
The second contract was an option to buy all the land between the Ohio and the Scioto rivers and the western boundary line of the Ohio Company's tract, extending north of the tenth survey township from the Ohio, this tract being preempted by Manasseh Cutler and Winthrop Sargent for themselves and others for the Scioto Company. Cutler's original ...