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On September 19, the 10th Kentucky Partisan Rangers rode into Owensboro, Kentucky and captured the city and surrounded the Union camp at daybreak with ease. Men of companies E, F, and H, commanded by Captain S. B. Taylor, J. S. Champion, and Clay Merriwether, moved to the west of Owensboro and the camp.
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]
[1] It was deemed "significant as the best example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture in Owensboro and as the focal institution in the history of the German Roman Catholic community of Owensboro and Daviess County." [2] In 1948, the parish of St. Joseph was combined with the nearby Irish-American parish of St. Paul to form Sts.
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.
497423 [1] Yellow Banks, Kentucky , was the name of the rustic community founded by pioneer William Smeathers or Smothers around 1790 on the banks of the Ohio River . The name was derived from the yellowish banks along the river.
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.
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.