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Irene Dunne (1898-1990)
Born in Louisville, this actress appeared on Broadway in 1920s and then starred in forty-one comedy, dramatic, and musical films of the 1930s and 40s. nominated five times for an Academy Award. Her noted films included &qu…
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Belle of Louisville
The Belle of Louisville, built in Pittsburgh in 1914, is the oldest continuously operating steamboat in the U.S. Warfboat LSS#10 is the only remaining inland Coast Guard Station in the U.S. Both were designated National Histo…
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Captain John F. Gilooly
Louisville's most famous life saver at the Falls of the Ohio, Captain John F. (Jack) Gilooly (1855 - 1926), assisted in or effected the saving of 6,312 persons, property valued at $5,500,00, and recovery of 400 bodies of d…
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General George Rogers Clark
by
Felix W. de Weldon
A Gift to the People of Louisville
by the Hillman-Hopkins Family
( inscribed in the stones on the terrace )
In the spring of 1778, Lt. Col. George Rogers Clark led a small flotilla of boats c…
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Slave Trading In Louisville
By the 1850s, Kentucky was annually exporting between 2500 and 4000 of its slaves down river to the large plantations further south. To prevent runaways, traders operating near the Ohio River kept slaves shackled toget…
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1809 Abraham Lincoln born at Sinking Spring farm, in present-day Larue County, Kentucky.
1816 Lincoln family moved from Kentucky.
1841 Abraham Lincoln visited his friend Joshua Speed at Farmington, the Speed family plantation, in Louisv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1YG2_slavery-laws-in-old-kentucky-site-of-arterburn-brothers-slave-pens_Louisville-KY.html
Slavery Laws In Old KentuckyKy.'s 1792 Constitution continued legalized enslavement of blacks in the new state; 1800 tax lists show 40,000 slaves. U.S. banned African slave trade in 1808 but selling of men, women and children in South continued. B…
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Side 1Second African Baptist Church, now Green Street Baptist Church, was formally organized here, Sept. 29, 1844. As was usual in the years of slavery, the founding members had the sponsorship of a protection committee, appointed by First Baptist…
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First Louisville Slugger Bat
Site of J.F. Hillerich carpentry shop, 1875-1901. In 1894, J.F.'s son, J.A. "Bud" Hillerich, attended a Louisville Eclipse major league baseball game. After star player Pete Browning broke his bat, Hillerich…
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The Associated Advertising Clubs of America met at Galt House, on this site, for their fifth annual convention, 1909. Led by Samuel C. Dobbs, the convention took united action to challenge false advertising. This stand began concept of the Better …