Timeline of Louisville, Kentucky

City history timeline

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA.

Prior to 19th century

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Childhood home of Zachary Taylor
  • 1773 – Captain Thomas Bullitt surveys the land.[1]
  • 1778 – George Rogers Clark settles on Corn Island.
  • 1778 – Fort-on-Shore constructed
  • 1780 – Louisville chartered.[1]
  • 1780 – Jefferson County established with Louisville as seat
  • 1781 – Fort Nelson (Kentucky) constructed
  • 1790s – Zachary Taylor, 12th US president, spent his childhood in Louisville.[1]
  • 1798 – Jefferson Seminary chartered.

19th century

20th century

1901–1959

1960–2000

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Britannica 1910.
  2. ^ a b c "U.S. Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Library of Congress. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998, archived from the original on September 2, 2017, retrieved December 10, 2017
  4. ^ Edwin Atlee Barber (1909), The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States: An Historical Review of American Ceramic Art from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (3rd ed.), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, OCLC 1732507
  5. ^ a b c Kleber 2001.
  6. ^ Casseday 1852.
  7. ^ a b Williams 1882.
  8. ^ a b Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Archived from the original on March 2, 2015. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  9. ^ Haynes McMullen (January 1966). "The Use of Books in the Ohio Valley before 1850". Journal of Library History. 1 (1): 43–73. JSTOR 25539956.
  10. ^ Louisville Slugger Museum. "Timeline". Archived from the original on June 17, 2012. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  11. ^ Courier-Journal 1901.
  12. ^ "American Societies", International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin, New York: E. & H. T. Anthony & Company, 1892
  13. ^ Louisville Bar Association. "About the LBA". Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Retrieved September 3, 2012.
  14. ^ a b Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Kentucky", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
  15. ^ a b Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Kentucky", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
  16. ^ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1981). Louisville and Jefferson County Riverport: Environmental Impact Statement.
  17. ^ "Kentucky". Official Congressional Directory. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1972. hdl:2027/mdp.39015011922419 – via HathiTrust.
  18. ^ "U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board Order Summary". Washington DC: U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  19. ^ "Merchandise Received and Exports: Top 25, 2015", Annual Report of the Foreign-Trade Zones Board to the Congress of the United States, 2016, archived from the original on September 18, 2016, retrieved September 18, 2016
  20. ^ "Kentucky State Data Center at the University of Louisville". Ksdc.louisville.edu. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
  21. ^ "Official Home Page of the City of Louisville, Kentucky". Archived from the original on February 29, 2000 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  22. ^ "Official Web Site of Louisville, Kentucky". Archived from the original on December 5, 2001.
  23. ^ Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on April 11, 2017. Retrieved October 1, 2016.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

  • "Louisville", American Advertising Directory, for Manufacturers and Dealers in American Goods, New York: Jocelyn, Darling & Co., 1831, OCLC 1018684
  • Louisville Directory for the year 1832. Louisville: Otis. 1832.. 1970 reprint
  • Lewis Collins (1850), "Jefferson County", Historical sketches of Kentucky, Maysville, Kentucky: L. Collins
  • Benjamin Casseday (1852), History of Louisville, Louisville: Hull and Brother, OCLC 2017121, OL 271589M
  • Henry Tanner, ed. (1859). Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser. Louisville: Maxwell & Co.
  • "Louisville". Commercial Gazetteer and Business Directory of the Ohio River. Indianapolis: G.W. Hawes. 1861.
  • R. H. Long (1863), "Louisville", Hunt's Gazetteer of the Border and Southern States, Pittsburgh, PA: John P. Hunt
  • "Ohio River: Louisville". James' River Guide ... Mississippi Valley. Cincinnati: U.P. James. 1871.
  • "Louisville". Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory. R.L. Polk & Co. 1876.
  • Joseph Sabin, ed. (1878). "Louisville, Kentucky". Bibliotheca Americana. Vol. 10. New York. OCLC 13972268.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • History of the Ohio Falls Cities and their Counties, vol. 1, Cleveland, Ohio: L. A. Williams & Co., 1882
  • Price, W.T. (1883). "Louisville" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (9th ed.).
  • J. Stoddard Johnston (1896), Memorial history of Louisville from its first settlement to the year 1896, Chicago: American Biographical Pub. Co., OCLC 3346757, OL 6968633M

Published in 20th century

  • Courier-Journal Almanac for 1901. Louisville Courier-Journal Co. 1901.
  • Directory of the City of Louisville for 1909. Louisville: Caron Directory Company. 1909. pp. 57 v. Archived from the original on January 31, 2024. Retrieved March 7, 2013.
  • "Louisville" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 63–64.
  • Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Louisville", Kentucky, American Guide Series, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, OCLC 498232 – via Internet Archive{{citation}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
  • Federal Writers' Project (1940), Louisville: A Guide to Falls City, American Guide Series
  • Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Louisville, Kentucky", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
  • George H. Yater (1987). Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County (2nd ed.). Louisville, Kentucky: Filson Club, Incorporated. ISBN 0-9601072-3-1. (first edition published in 1979)
  • George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Louisville, Kentucky", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M, archived from the original on October 27, 2021, retrieved December 26, 2019 – via Internet Archive (fulltext)
  • "The South: Kentucky: Louisville", USA, Let's Go, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999, OL 24937240M

Published in 21st century

  • John E. Kleber, ed. (2001). Encyclopedia of Louisville. University Press of Kentucky.
  • Southern Foodways Alliance, University of Mississippi (2008), Louisville: Blue Grass and Brown Whiskey (bibliography), archived from the original on September 24, 2016, retrieved September 23, 2016
  • Laura A. Reese and Raymond A. Rosenfeld, ed. (2012), "Civic culture and corporate regime in Louisville", Comparative Civic Culture: the Role of Local Culture in Urban Policy-Making, Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, ISBN 9781409436546

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