In February 2011, Kentucky governor Steve Beshear and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels announced that the two states, along with the City of Jeffersonville, would allocate $22 million in funding to complete the Big Four Bridge project– creating a pedestrian and bicycle path to link Louisville and Jeffersonville.
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Former New York senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan spent part of his childhood in Jeffersonville and actress Natalie West lived in the city at one time.
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Jeffersonville politician Richard B. Wathen represented the city in the Indiana House of Representatives from 1973-1990.
In 2004, Jeffersonville was the subject of TLC Network television program Town Haul in which interior designer Genevieve Gorder, a regular designer for TLC's program Trading Spaces, undertook to make over several buildings in the town.
Scott Buchanan, educator, philosopher, and foundation consultant; raised in Jeffersonville
Brough then moved to Indiana, where he entered the railroad business and became President of the Madison and Indianapolis Railway in 1848.
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Charles Edward Duble (September 13, 1884, Jeffersonville, Indiana – August 1960) was an American band musician and composer.
Barr died on April 3, 1938 in Clark County, Indiana north of Jeffersonville after sustaining a broken neck in a head-on car collision on US Highway 31.
He has also been involved in many local civic organizations such as the Jeffersonville Jaycees, Jeffersonville Optimist Club, KIDPA, Red Cross, and Jeff Main Street.
Classes were initially held in classrooms at New Albany High School and Hazelwood Junior High School in New Albany, and at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville.
John F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge across the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States
The city became an important distribution center during the Civil War for the Union Army, because three railroads connected to Jeffersonville and because the Ohio River served as a defensive barrier against invasion from Confederate attack, it was deemed a safer location than the more vulnerable city of Louisville, Kentucky located on the southern side of the river.
WXVW, a radio station (1450 AM) licensed to serve Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States, which held the call sign WQKC from 2008 to 2013
WWJS-CD channel 15, in Jeffersonville, Indiana, formerly used the call sign WVHF