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Daviess County (/ ˈ d eɪ v ɪ s / "Davis"), is a county in Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 103,312. [1] Its county seat is Owensboro. [2] The county was formed from part of Ohio County on January 14, 1815. Daviess County is included in the Owensboro, KY Metropolitan Statistical Area.
[1] It was deemed "significant as the best example of the Gothic Revival style of architecture in Owensboro and as the focal institution in the history of the German Roman Catholic community of Owensboro and Daviess County." [2] In 1948, the parish of St. Joseph was combined with the nearby Irish-American parish of St. Paul to form Sts.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
Owensboro is a home rule-class city [4] in and the county seat of [5] Daviess County, Kentucky, United States.It is the fourth-most populous city in the state. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about 107 miles (172 km) southwest of Louisville, and is the principal city of the Owensboro metropolitan area.
The two men honored on the monument were Charles W. Thompson (aged 18) and Pierman Powell (aged 25), who were executed in retaliation for the fatal wounding of a prominent resident of Henderson, Kentucky, James E. Rankin. They were originally held in Daviess County, but were taken to Henderson by Federal troops to be killed.
The original boundaries of Yelvington were set by the Daviess County Court in 1867. [4]Yelvington was settled in the early 19th century when it was in the northern portion of Ohio County, KY, by Valentine Husk and James Smeathers, brother of famed pioneer William Smeathers who first settled Yellow Banks, Kentucky; now Owensboro.
In 2020, Daviess County's last tobacco warehouse — Big Independent at 1875 Old Calhoun Road — quietly closed. And then in March, the property was sold to Crabtree Holdings LLC, for $1.625 million.
The Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Ky., was a 16-foot-tall, two-part object — a 7-foot-tall bronze sculpture atop a 9-foot-tall granite pedestal — located at the southwest corner of the Daviess County Courthouse lawn, at the intersection of Third and Frederica Streets, in Owensboro, Kentucky. [2]