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Daviess County (/ ˈ d eɪ v ɪ s / "Davis"), is a county in Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,312. [1] Its county seat is Owensboro. [2] The county was formed from part of Ohio County on January 14, 1815. Daviess County is included in the Owensboro, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
The two men honored on the monument were Charles W. Thompson (aged 18) and Pierman Powell (aged 25), who were executed in retaliation for the fatal wounding of a prominent resident of Henderson, Kentucky, James E. Rankin. They were originally held in Daviess County, but were taken to Henderson by Federal troops to be killed.
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The original boundaries of Yelvington were set by the Daviess County Court in 1867. [4]Yelvington was settled in the early 19th century when it was in the northern portion of Ohio County, KY, by Valentine Husk and James Smeathers, brother of famed pioneer William Smeathers who first settled Yellow Banks, Kentucky; now Owensboro.
In 2020, Daviess County's last tobacco warehouse — Big Independent at 1875 Old Calhoun Road — quietly closed. And then in March, the property was sold to Crabtree Holdings LLC, for $1.625 million.
Rosehill Elmwood Cemetery is located at 1300 Old Hartford Road in Owensboro, Daviess County, Kentucky.There are about 55,000 interments at the cemetery, which is officially recognized as a historical landmark by the state of Kentucky.