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The NCAA soon launched an investigation into the Louisville program. 2016 Speed Art Museum reopened after a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2-year, $60 million expansion project. Death of Muhammad Ali, his globally televised funeral procession, and private interment at Cave Hill Cemetery. Lewis and Clark Bridge opens in the East End of Louisville.
Originally known as The Methodist, [3] the 28-acre [citation needed] Eastern Cemetery is located at 641 Baxter Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, abutting Cave Hill Cemetery. [1] [3] The grounds were purchased by two Methodist Episcopal churches and used for burials by 1844. [3] It hosted Louisville's first crematoriums. [4]
George Smith graduated from Louisville Male High School in 1883, from the University of Virginia in 1886, and the University of Louisville School of Law in 1887. He practiced law throughout the rest of his life. He entered politics in 1898 with his election to the Kentucky General Assembly. Smith ran for mayor in 1917 on an anti-corruption ...
Dixie Lee Bryant, geologist and educator, born in Louisville in 1862; Frederick Detweiler, Sociologist, born in Louisville in 1881; George Devol, inventor of the first industrial robot; Thomas Alva Edison, inventor and businessman; before fame he lived in Butchertown during 1866–1867 around age 19; a house near where he lived is now a museum ...
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at 4701 Brownsboro Road (), in Louisville, Kentucky.It is named for Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, who is buried there with his wife, Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor.
The Louisville Division of Fire, commonly known as the Louisville Fire Department or Louisville Fire & Rescue (abbreviated LFD or LFR), is the sole fire suppression agency for the city of Louisville, Kentucky and is one of eight fire departments within the Louisville-Jefferson County, Kentucky metropolitan area. The Louisville Division of Fire ...
Smith is an unincorporated community in Harlan County, Kentucky, United States. The community lies along Kentucky Route 987 and the Martin's Fork of the Cumberland River. Smith is also home to Martins Fork Lake. The lake was constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers as part of several flood control projects along the Cumberland River. The ...
The Historic Firehouses of Louisville is a Thematic Resource (TR) Multiple Property Submission (MPS) on the National Register of Historic Places. The submission represents 18 historic fire stations , located in Louisville, Kentucky , which were added to the National Register in 1980–81 due to their historical and architectural merits.