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The Southern Exposition was a five-year series of world's fairs held in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1883 to 1887 in what is now Louisville's Old Louisville neighborhood. The exposition, held for 100 days each year on 45 acres (180,000 m 2) immediately south of Central Park, which is now the St. James-Belgravia Historic District, was essentially an industrial and mercantile show.
The Kentucky Exposition Center (KEC), is a large multi-use facility in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Originally built in 1956. [ 1 ] It is overseen by the Kentucky Venues and is the sixth largest facility of its type in the U.S., with 1,300,000 square feet (120,000 m 2 ) of indoor space.
The Kentucky International Convention Center (KICC), formerly called the Commonwealth Convention Center, is a large multi-use facility in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The KICC, along with the Kentucky Exposition Center , hosts conventions for the Louisville area.
The Kentucky State Fair is the official state fair of Kentucky which takes place at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. More than 600,000 fairgoers fill the 520 acres (2.1 km 2 ) of indoor and outdoor exhibits; activities include sampling a wide variety of food and riding several roller coasters during the 11-day event.
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1978 – Kentucky State Data Center headquartered in Louisville [20] 1981 – Sewer explosions occur in the center of the city. 1982 – Democrat Harvey I. Sloane was elected mayor for the second time. 1986 – Democrat Jerry Abramson was elected mayor for the first time. 1987 Kentucky Kingdom amusement park opened at the Kentucky Exposition ...
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 Standard Oil Company of Kentucky was incorporated on October 8, 1886, under Kentucky laws. [2] It was founded as a division of the Standard Oil Trust to handle the assets of the Chess, Carley & Company, which Standard had acquired to handle product marketing and distribution for the southeastern U.S. [citation needed] It maintained corporate offices in all of the states it serviced, and ...