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The history of the Irish in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, dates to the founding of the city. There were two major waves of Irish influence on Louisville - the Scots-Irish in the late 18th century, and those who escaped from the Great Famine of the 1840s.
But as many of the railroad jobs left the area, the Irish began to move to South Louisville. On October 7, 1871, the Louisville Steam Engine Co. 7 was formed to provide fire protection to the "southern suburbs" of Louisville. Its firehouse at 821 S. 6th Street is the oldest continuously active firehouse in the U.S.
Pages in category "History of Louisville, Kentucky" The following 104 pages are in this category, out of 104 total. ... History of the Irish in Louisville; J ...
Richard Montfort, first chief engineer of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Richard Montfort (County Carlow, Ireland, 4 March 1854 – 7 February 1931, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States), was an Irish-American architect and engineer.
Bloody Monday was a series of riots on August 6, 1855, in Louisville, Kentucky, an election day, when Protestant mobs attacked Irish and German Catholic neighborhoods.. These riots grew out of the bitter rivalry between the Democrats and the Nativist Know-Nothing
Franklin Roosevelt visits Louisville -- looking east on Walnut (now Muhammad Ali), October 22, 1932. The 1939 world premiere of ``One Million B.C.,'' staring Victor Mature of Louisville, at Loew's ...
View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site.
The Kentucky Irish American was an ethnic weekly newspaper in Louisville, Kentucky, which catered to Louisville's Irish community. It was first published on July 4, 1898, founded by William M. Higgins. It was a four-page weekly. Higgins would run the paper until his death on June 9, 1925.