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The Estill Steam Furnace, a blast furnace was established in about 1830. [2] A post office was established in the community in 1857, and named for the Estill Steam Furnace. This was shortened to Furnace in 1882. [3] The post office was discontinued in 1975. [4]
On October 26, 1906, Nannie Kelly married Daniel Gregory Wright, one of the central figures of the Philadelphia financial world at the time, and 21 years her junior. That same year, she sold the Center Furnace to the Superior Portland Cement company, cashing the largest check ($100,000) ever cashed in a local bank at the time.
Legislative action made the Commission official in 1970. In 1978, the Kentucky Commission on Women started a campaign to recognize Kentucky women that history had overlooked. The exhibit "Kentucky Women Excel" began at that year's Kentucky State Fair. In 1996 the exhibit was moved to a first floor hallway of the west wing of the Capitol building.
The Bourbon Iron Works, near Owingsville in Bath County, Kentucky, date from 1791.The works was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1]It was the first of six blast furnaces built in this area for the smelting of iron ore.
The Bloom Elementary School at 1627 Lucia Ave. in Louisville, Ky. on July 10, 2023. The district's second-oldest school is in Louisville's Tyler Park neighborhood along Lucia Avenue.
Here’s a look at some of the worst coal disasters in Kentucky history. 1917: No. 7 mine explosion in Webster County kills 62 men. On the morning of Aug. 4, 1917, ...
Columbus-Belmont State Park, on the shores of the Mississippi River in Hickman County, near Columbus, Kentucky, is the site of a Confederate fortification built during the American Civil War. The site was considered by both North and South to be strategically significant in gaining and keeping control of the Mississippi River .
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