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Louisville's major employers include United Parcel Service, Ford Motor Company and GE Appliances. [1] Major employers. United Parcel Service. UPS Airlines;
Belle of Louisville is a steamboat owned and operated by the city of Louisville, Kentucky, and moored at its downtown wharf next to the Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere during its annual operational period. The steamboat claims itself the "most widely traveled river steamboat in American history."
Three men were arrested following a robbery and chase Thursday night that wound across the streets and freeways of Sacramento. The incident began as an armed robbery about 9:30 p.m. at a business ...
The Louisville skyline 400 West Market. Downtown Louisville is the largest central business district in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the urban hub of the Louisville, Kentucky Metropolitan Area. Its boundaries are the Ohio River to the north, Hancock Street to the east, York and Jacob Streets to the south, and 9th Street to the west. As of ...
Valley Station, Kentucky is a former census-designated place in southwestern Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.The population was 22,946 at the 2000 census. When the government of Jefferson County merged with the city of Louisville, Kentucky in 2003, residents of Valley Station also became citizens of Louisville Metro.
Development first began during the 1850s when the Louisville and Lexington turnpike (now Frankfort Avenue) and the Louisville and Frankfort railroad were built through the area. In 1853 a 38-acre (150,000 m 2 ) fair grounds were built and were used to host the Agriculture and Technology fair, which had 20,000 visitors on one day in 1857.
Buechel is a former census-designated place in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States.The population was 7,272 at the 2000 census. Since 2003, it has been part of the city of Louisville due to a merger between the city and Jefferson County's unincorporated areas.
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.