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The Filson Club was founded on May 15, 1884, by ten men, primarily Louisvillians, with a shared love of history. The primary founder and first president was Reuben T. Durrett . The organization was named in honor of John Filson , Kentucky's first Anglophone historian, and the centennial of his historical works, including a 1784 map of Kentucky ...
The Filson Club History Quarterly was an academic journal of American history (focusing on history of the Ohio Valley and Kentucky) published by the Filson Historical Society. It was originally established as The Historical Quarterly in 1926 by Robert S. Cotterill , to supplement The Filson Club Publications , a series of monographs published ...
The Romance of the Origin of Louisville (1894) Old Year and New in the Coliseum at Rome (1856) John Filson, the First Historian of Kentucky (1884) The [Kentucky] Resolutions of 1798 and 1799 (1886) Thoughts Over the Grave of Rev. Thomas Smith (1852) An Historical Sketch of St. Paul's Church, Louisville, Ky (1889) Boonesborough.
At that time, the house was left to the Filson Club. [ 3 ] [ 7 ] The house was operated by the Filson Club (today called The Filson Historical Society) as a house museum from 1969 until 1992, when a non-profit organization was created by the club to manage the house, as well as to help defray the costs of maintaining it.
1877 – Southern Baptist Theological Seminary relocates to Louisville. 1879 – Kaufman-Straus department store opens. 1880 – Population: 123,758. [3] 1882 – Louisville Eclipse baseball team formed. 1883 – Southern Exposition begins. 1884 Filson Club founded. The Louisville Times newspaper begins publication. Chestnut Street Baptist ...
S&M Club Found Abandoned in Louisville, Ky., Under Dilapidated Historic Buildings. Graham Wood. Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:37 PM. S&M club louisville ky.
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Old Louisville, Kentucky (roughly bounded by York St. and E. Jacob St. on the north; S. Floyd St. and I-65 on the east; E. Brandeis St. on the south; and S. 5th St., S. 7th St. and the CSX Railroad tracks on the west).
Duke married Louisville investment banker Samuel Cowen Henning in 1897. [15] [16] They had four children and lived in Louisville's Cherokee Park neighborhood. Her husband died in 1913. [17] Henning died in 1961, in Louisville, at age 85. [13] The Filson Historical Society library holds some of Henning's papers. [18]