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Anne Northup, U.S. Representative from Louisville, 1997–2007; member of the Consumer Products Safety Commission; sister of Mary T. Meagher; Zach Payne, member of the Indiana House of Representatives; Clarence M. Pendleton, Jr., Chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, from 1981 until his death in 1988; born in Louisville in ...
The table below includes sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jefferson County, Kentucky except those in the following neighborhoods/districts of Louisville: Anchorage, Downtown, The Highlands, Old Louisville, Portland and the West End (including Algonquin, California, Chickasaw, Park Hill, Parkland, Russell and Shawnee).
Cave Hill Cemetery main entrance in Louisville, Jefferson County. Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville; NRHP-listed; Eastern Cemetery, Louisville; Long Run Baptist Church and Cemetery, Louisville; NRHP-listed; St. Louis Cemetery, Louisville; Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, Louisville; NRHP-listed
The Louisville Journal was an organ of the Whig Party and was founded and edited by George D. Prentice, a New Englander who initially came to Kentucky to write a biography of Henry Clay. [5] Prentice edited the Journal for more than 40 years. In 1844, another newspaper, the Louisville Morning Courier, was founded in Louisville by Walter Newman ...
At the time, the mansion was the most expensive home in Louisville. In the 1920s, the Fergusons sold the home to the Pearson family, and it served as the Pearson Funeral Home until the mid-1970s. The house also provided the headquarters for John Y. Brown Jr.'s successful 1979 gubernatorial campaign.
On July 7, 1951, Bingham, along with Jane Darwell, was a guest on the CBS variety television series, Faye Emerson's Wonderful Town, when the program hosted Louisville and its music heritage. [ 4 ] In 1971, Bingham stepped down from day-to-day operations and handed over the operations of the company to his remaining son, Barry Bingham Jr ...
The Joseph Holt House and Chapel, located in Breckinridge County, Kentucky southwest of Addison on Kentucky Route 144, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] The John Holt House was built in c. 1850 and has several elements of Italianate style. It is a two-and-a-half- or three-story building with first-floor ...
The history of Louisville, Kentucky, United States, as a city is considered to have started on February 13, 1828, the date of the first city charter.From the time of its first organization as a village, on February 7, 1781, until its incorporation as a city, it was governed by a board of trustees.