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The 1921-1928 Newport, Kentucky steel strike was a labor dispute between steel workers in Newport, Kentucky and Andrews Steel Co., the owners of the Andrew Steel Plant and Newport Rolling Mill. [1] [2] The strike was primarily over continued union recognition of the three unskilled steel local who had won collective bargaining during World War I.
In 1855–56, he joined Walker in Nicaragua, and later commanded a Kentucky cavalry regiment on the Union side during the U.S. Civil War. [37] He was a machinist and hotelkeeper before the Civil War and he enslaved 9 individuals during his time in Owen County, Kentucky in 1860. [ 38 ]
Crestwood is a home rule-class city [4] in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States just outside Louisville's Northeast End.The population was 6,183 as of the 2020 census. CNN listed it as the 52nd best place to live in America in 2005.
Shepherdsville is a home rule-class city [5] on the Salt River in Bullitt County, Kentucky, in the United States. It is the second largest city and seat of its county, [6] located just south of Louisville. The population was 14,201 during the 2020 U.S. Census. [7] [8]
A part of Clay's American System, the bill would have allowed for federal funding of a project to construct a road linking Lexington and the Ohio River, the entirety of which would be in the state of Kentucky, Clay's home state. His primary objection was based on the local nature of the project.
Crit Luallen, Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky and former state auditor of Kentucky [20] [21] Daniel Mongiardo, former lieutenant governor of Kentucky and nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2004 [15] Greg Stumbo, Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives, former attorney general of Kentucky and candidate for lieutenant governor in 2007 [8 ...
The county is located on the Kentucky Bend of the Mississippi River, which forms a border of the county. This feature is also known as New Madrid Bend or Madrid Bend. This oxbow flows around an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky. Scientists expect that eventually the river will cut a new channel across the narrow neck of the peninsula, which ...