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Spalding Hall in Bardstown, which houses both the Bardstown Historical Museum and the Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History. Evan Williams Bourbon Experience, [1] located on Louisville's Whiskey Row, featuring bourbon history and tastings, and interprets Louisville's wharf history in the 1790s; Heaven Hill Distilleries Bourbon Heritage Center [2]
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.
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.Latitude and longitude coordinates of the 87 sites listed on this page may be displayed in a map or exported in several formats by clicking on one of the links in the adjacent box.
It is almost New Year's Eve! Here are 16 places where you can dine in or pre-order a New Year's Eve feast to-go in Louisville.
Owsley Brown Frazier was a wealthy businessman and philanthropist in Louisville. [4] [8] When a tornado struck the city during the 1974 Super Outbreak, it destroyed Frazier's home, and a rare Kentucky long rifle that he owned – a family heirloom made for his great-great-grandfather in Bardstown in the 1820s and gifted to him by his grandfather in 1952 – disappeared. [9]
Here, Durrett maintained an extensive historical collection. Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston (1858–1946) c. 1906 Jules-Charles Aviat (1844–1931) Oil on Canvas Filson Museum Collection (1929.8.60) During Durrett's final illness in 1913, arrangements were made to sell his collection to the University of Chicago.
The Field Elementary School at 120 Sacred Heart Lane in Louisville, Ky. on July 10, 2023. Field, the district's fourth-oldest school, opened in 1915 with five teachers and 155 students in ...
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Old Louisville, Kentucky (roughly bounded by York St. and E. Jacob St. on the north; S. Floyd St. and I-65 on the east; E. Brandeis St. on the south; and S. 5th St., S. 7th St. and the CSX Railroad tracks on the west).