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The design for what was then known as the East End Bridge is the result of the $22.1 million, four-year Ohio River Bridges Study, which found that solving the region's traffic congestion would require the construction of two new bridges across the Ohio River and reconstruction of the Kennedy Interchange in downtown Louisville.
A woman was rescued from a tractor trailer after being involved in a four-vehicle accident that left the truck dangling precariously from the Clark Memorial Bridge Friday. Louisville Fire Chief ...
Locally, the Clark Bridge is known as the Second Street Bridge due to its direct alignment onto Second Street in Louisville. There is a pedestrian sidewalk on each side of the bridge deck. The Clark Bridge was previously the only regional Ohio River bridge open to non-motorized traffic, until the opening of the Indiana side of the nearby Big ...
The new structure is the fourth bridge in downtown Louisville, joining the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge erected between spring 1961 and late 1963 at a cost of $10 million; the four-lane George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge, constructed from June 1928 and to October 31, 1929; and the Big Four Bridge, which operated as a railroad bridge from ...
An aerial view of the Watterson Expressway in St Matthews. As of September 2016, there are four road bridges crossing the Ohio River to Indiana: the Sherman Minton Bridge in the city's West End, the John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge (), the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge or Second Street Bridge (), and the newly opened Abraham Lincoln Bridge that lies just east of the Kennedy bridge in ...
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.
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.
Farmington, an 18-acre (7.3 ha) historic site in Louisville, Kentucky, was once the center of a hemp plantation owned by John and Lucy Speed. The 14-room, Federal-style brick plantation house was possibly based on a design by Thomas Jefferson and has several Jeffersonian architectural features.