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The Kentucky Gazette: Frankfort 1787 Laura Cullen Glasscock Started as The Kentucke Gazette in Louisville by John Bradford. Kentucky New Era: Hopkinsville: 1863 [49] Daily Paxton Media Group: The Lake News: Calvert City: 1984 [50] Weekly Loyd Ford The LaRue County Herald: Hodgenville: 1879 [51] Weekly Paxton Media Group: Lebanon Enterprise ...
Louisville Free Public Library, Western Colored Branch opens. Louisville Gardens opens. Jefferson School of Law opens. Fontaine Ferry Park (amusement park) opens. 1907 – The annual Kentucky State Fair moves permanently to Louisville. 1908 – Louisville Free Public Library main branch opens. 1910 Snead Manufacturing Building constructed.
He continued the Louisville Gazette while at the same time moving to St. Louis, Missouri, where he founded the Missouri Gazette. Its first issue appeared on 12 July 1808, with 174 subscribers. It was on foolscap sheets, measuring about 8-1/4 x 12-1/2 inches, in three columns. After another year, he sold the Louisville newspaper in July 1809.
The local daily newspaper in Louisville is The Courier-Journal, a property of the Gannett chain. Local weekly newspapers include Business First of Louisville, Louisville Defender (African American paper published since 1933), Louisville Eccentric Observer (or LEO, a free alternative paper) and The Voice-Tribune.
Louisville [b] is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 28th-most-populous city in the United States. [a] [11] By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city.
The first known African American newspapers to serve Kentucky were the Colored Citizen, which was briefly published in Louisville in 1866, and the Colored Kentuckian, launched in 1867. [ 2 ] African American newspapers serving Kentucky today include the Louisville Defender , the Key Newsjournal of Lexington, and the Northern Kentucky Herald ...
The Kentucky Gazette, or Kentucke Gazette, was the first newspaper published in the state of Kentucky. It was started in Lexington by Fielding and John Bradford in 1787 (as Kentucke Gazette), and continued into 1789 with the current spelling of the state. Currently, the newspaper is published in Frankfort and released every other Wednesday.
The Louisville Times was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1884 by Walter N. Haldeman, [ 5 ] as the afternoon counterpart to The Courier-Journal , the dominant morning newspaper in Louisville and the commonwealth of Kentucky for many years.