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100 unusual facts about Louisville, Kentucky


113th Ohio Infantry

The 113th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service July 6, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.

14th Ohio Infantry

The 14th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 11, 1865.

17th Ohio Infantry

The 13th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 16, 1865.

17th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment was mustered out on July 14, 1865 at Louisville, Kentucky.

185th Ohio Infantry

Detained at Louisville, Kentucky, and assigned to guard duty at various points in Kentucky from Owensboro to Cumberland Gap, with headquarters at Eminence, until September.

1920 Louisiana hurricane

A train running from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee was left stranded after being washed out near Chef Menteur Pass, and other rail operations were stopped between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama.

1967 NHL expansion

Cleveland and Louisville had also expressed previous interest but were not represented.

1st Scripps National Spelling Bee

The 1st Scripps National Spelling Bee was held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1925, not by Scripps Howard but by the Louisville Courier-Journal.

20th Ohio Infantry

The 20th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 18, 1865.

21st Ohio Infantry

The soldiers were discharged from the army and paid on July 28, 1865, when the regiment mustered out in Louisville, Kentucky.

31st Ohio Infantry

The 31st Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 20, 1865.

32nd Ohio Infantry

The 32nd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 20, 1865.

33rd Ohio Infantry

The 33rd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 12, 1865.

37th Ohio Infantry

It then followed the fortunes of that well-known corps until the reaching of Washington, D.C. From Louisville, Kentucky, it went with the 2nd Division of the Corps to Little Rock, Arkansas, and was there mustered out in August 1865.

38th Ohio Infantry

The 38th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 12, 1865.

39th Ohio Infantry

The 39th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 9, 1865.

43rd Ohio Infantry

The 43rd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 13, 1865.

46th Ohio Infantry

The 46th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 22, 1865.

4th Michigan Cavalry

After training and drilling, it left the state on September 26 for duty in Louisville, Kentucky, and was soon attached to the 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Ohio until November 1862.

66th Ohio Infantry

The 66th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 15, 1865.

68th Ohio Infantry

The 68th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 10, 1865.

74th Ohio Infantry

The 74th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 11, 1865.

78th Ohio Infantry

The 78th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 11, 1865.

80th Troop Carrier Squadron

Postwar the squadron was activated in the Air Force Reserve in 1947, first at Godman AFB, then at Standiford Field, Louisville, Kentucky, operating C-46 Commandos for Tactical Air Command Eighteenth Air Force; activated during the Korean War in 1951, its aircraft and personnel being used as fillers for active duty units, then inactivated.

81st Ohio Infantry

The 81st Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 13, 1865.

81st Troop Carrier Squadron

Postwar the squadron was activated in the air force reserve in 1947, first at Godman AFB, then at Standiford Field, Louisville, Kentucky, operating C-46 Commandos for Tactical Air Command Eighteenth Air Force; activated during the Korean War in 1951, its aircraft and personnel being used as fillers for active duty units, then inactivated.

82nd Ohio Infantry

The 82nd Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on July 29, 1865.

95th Ohio Infantry

The 95th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Louisville, Kentucky on August 19, 1865.

Angel Cordero, Jr.

The Kentucky Derby is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky and is considered by many as the most important race in American thoroughbred racing.

Austin Pryor

Pryor is a native of Louisville, Kentucky, and graduated from the University of Kentucky where he received a B.S. degree in Banking and Finance in 1967.

Ben Charles Green

He was an attorney for the Federal Land Bank in Louisville, Kentucky from 1933 to 1935 before returning to private practice in Cleveland from 1935 to 1961.

Brooke Berman

Her short play "Dancing with a Devil" was a co-winner of the Heideman Award at Actors Theater of Louisville in 1999, presented in “Life Under 30” at the Humana Festival, and nominated for an American Theater Critics Best New Play award.

Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre

Caesar and Otto's Summer Camp Massacre made its world premiere on August 15, 2009 at the Fright Night Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, where it received a nomination for Best Horror Comedy.

Carl Brenders

30 of the artist's works were a part of the major retrospective exhibition Artistry in Nature: The Wildlife Paintings of Carl Brenders which opened at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and then traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, and Shreveport, Louisiana.

Cascade Broadcasting Group

W24BW channel 24, Louisville, Kentucky (now WKYI-LD; owned by Greater Louisville Communications)

David Erb

In 2008, Dave Erb became the 29th jockey to add his handprint and signature in cement to the "Gallup to Glory" display at the Galt House hotel in Louisville, Kentucky.

David Pajo

A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Pajo played with three Louisville hardcore and hardcore-inflected bands in his early career.

David Schmoeller

David Schmoeller (born December 8, 1947 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter.

David W. Tandy

David Warren Tandy is an American Democratic Party politician in Louisville, Kentucky, who represents Louisville Metro's District 4.

Edward Gal

In a piece in The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky that ran before the 2010 Games, dressage trainer Susan Posner pointed out that Toto was only in his second year in dressage despite being 10 years old, and said that his success illustrated how capable Gal was as a rider.

Elizabeth Bevarly

Elizabeth Bevarly (b. Louisville, Kentucky, United States) is an American writer of over 55 romance novels since 1989.

Elwood L. Haines

He was Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville, Kentucky when he was elected to be the fifth bishop of Iowa on March 8, 1944.

Engine Takes to the Water

Engine Takes to the Water is the debut album by Louisville-based math rock band June of 44.

Ernie Allen

Mr. Allen is also a former Director of Public Health & Safety for the City of Louisville, Kentucky.

Ford P platform

Production of the Super Duty trucks will continue at the Louisville, Kentucky truck plant.

George Grey Barnard

The first casting is at Lytle Park in Cincinnati, Ohio (Abraham Lincoln (George Grey Barnard), 1917), the second in Manchester, England (1919), and the third in Louisville, Kentucky (1922).

Girolamo Savoldo

Magdalen (1535–1540) Getty Center, Los Angeles; National Gallery, London; Contini-Bonacossi Collection, Florence; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA

Herbert Hugo Menges

Herbert Hugo Menges, born in Louisville, Kentucky 20 January 1917 enlisted in the Naval Reserve as seaman second class at Robertson, Missouri on 3 July 1939.

If You Could Say It in Words

The film was named Best Feature and Best of Festival at the 2008 Derby City Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky.

IMR Test Labs

IMR first expanded with the acquisition of IMR Metallurgical Services, located in Louisville, Kentucky in October 2002.

In the Fishtank 6

In the Fishtank 6 is the recording of a live session in a Dutch studio by Louisville-based math rock band June of 44.

Jimmy LaSalvia

He has also previously worked as a development officer for Kentucky Opera and as a real estate broker in Louisville, Kentucky.

John Michael Hayden

A two-time Parade Magazine All-American at Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky, Hayden matriculated at Indiana University in 2002.

Jon Petrovich

Petrovich began as a reporter for WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky before moving on to become assistant News Director for WDIV-TV in Detroit, Michigan.

Jorge Navarro Suárez

In 2010, Navarro was captured in an undercover video for ABC News during an event of the Council of United States Legislators in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kelly Downard

Downard graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1964, also graduated from the University of Dayton School of Business Administration and earned a Master of Business Administration from Bellarmine University.

Patrick Kelly Downard is the Republican Councilman for the 16th District of Louisville Metro in Kentucky in the United States of America and served as Metro Council President from 2004 to 2005.

Kentucky Travelers

They are based in Louisville (and affiliated with the ABA's official development league, the Louisville Basketball League), but play all their games on the road as the ABA's official travel team.

Kinnaird R. McKee

McKee was born in Louisville, Kentucky on August 14, 1929 and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1951.

Larry Elmore

Larry Elmore (born August 5, 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American fantasy artist whose work includes creating illustrations for video games, comics, magazines and fantasy books.

Leane Zugsmith

Leane Zugsmith was born in Louisville, Kentucky on 18 January 1903 to Albert Zugsmith and Gertrude Appel.

Levi Strauss

Levi's sister Fanny and her husband David Stern moved to St. Louis, Missouri, while Levi went to live in Louisville and sold his brothers' supplies in Kentucky.

Louisville Lightning

Louisville was awarded the team in August with the ownership group of Wayne Estopinal and Ted Nichols and the new team was aptly named the Lightning as well.

Louisville Thunder

Louisville Thunder was an indoor soccer club based in Louisville, Kentucky that competed in the American Indoor Soccer Association.

Lyndon Lawless

In 2006, he stepped down as Director of the Orchestra Department at the Youth Performing Arts School in Louisville, Kentucky.

Margaret Vandercook

Daughter of Joel Mayo Womack and Nannie Gibson (O'Bannon) Womack, she was born in Louisville, Kentucky, where she attended both public and private schools.

Maria Jolas

Jolas was born in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, but became closely associated with European culture.

Marilyn Martin

Born in Tennessee but raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Martin gained notice as a back-up singer for such artists as Stevie Nicks, Joe Walsh, Don Henley, Tom Petty and Kenny Loggins, touring with Nicks and Walsh.

Mary E. Britton

In 1859, along with older sister Julia Britton Hooks (later known as a gifted musician and educator, as well as Berea's first African American teacher), she was sent to Louisville, Kentucky, and was placed in the late Mr. WM.

Middleton S. Barnwell

Middleton S. Barnwell was born September 9, 1882 in Louisville, Kentucky.

Monon, Indiana

The northern division came into Monon and turned ninety degrees heading south to Lafayette and Louisville, Kentucky.

Morrison County, Minnesota

A group of investors from Louisville, Kentucky, led by M. M. Williams, provided the financing for this dam.

Murray F. Tuley

Murray F. Tuley was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1827.

Nathaniel Allen

Allen died in the Gault House hotel, while conducting business in Louisville, Kentucky, on December 22, 1832 (age about 52 years).

National League

After recruiting St. Louis privately, four western clubs met in Louisville, Kentucky, in January 1876.

Pheme Perkins

Pheme Perkins (born 1945 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a Professor of Theology at Boston College, where she has been teaching since 1972.

Plasan Sand Cat

It is based on a commercial Ford F-Series chassis shortened to a 2.84 m (112 in) wheelbase by Ford Qualified Vehicle Modifier, Manning Equipment of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

Rank Strangers

The Rank Strangers were also headliners at the Station Inn in Nashville, and the Louisville, Kentucky, music festival, supporting guitar legend Tony Rice's bluegrass band.

Renfro Valley Gatherin'

During this time, both shows were headquartered at WHAS in Louisville, Kentucky.

Ron Gettelfinger

Gettelfinger started his union involvement in 1964 in Louisville, Kentucky, at the Louisville Assembly Plant run by Ford Motor Company while working as a chassis line repairman.

Scott Ritcher

Scott Ritcher is a magazine publisher and graphic designer from Louisville, Kentucky, born September 27, 1969.

In 1998, Ritcher entered politics as the Reform Party's candidate for Mayor of Louisville.

Shelby Place Historic District

Shelby Place Historic District is a registered historic district in New Albany, Indiana, one mile north of the Ohio River, across from Louisville, Kentucky.

Strathmoor, Kentucky

Strathmoor is a former suburb of Louisville, Kentucky.

Stuart F. Reed

In addition, he was a member of the International Tax Conference at Louisville, Kentucky in 1909 and the Secretary of State of West Virginia 1909–1917.

Sullivan College of Technology and Design

Sullivan College of Technology and Design is a private post-secondary school in Louisville, Kentucky.

T-Bone Concerto

The first movement was premiered in February 1996 at the conference in Louisville, Kentucky, performed by the soloist Jeffrey Thomas.

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

Urban historian Richard C. Wade challenged the Frontier Thesis in his first asset, The Urban Frontier (1959), asserting that western cities such as Pittsburgh, Louisville, and Cincinnati, not the farmer pioneers, were the catalysts for western expansion.

Timothy Shay Arthur

He then found employment with a wholesale merchandiser and later as an agent for an investment concern, a job that took him briefly to Louisville, Kentucky.

Toronto Blessing

Randy Clark had been influenced by the ministry of Rodney Howard-Browne, a South African preacher, founder of the Rodney Howard-Browne Evangelistic Association in Louisville, Kentucky, and the earliest known proponent of the "holy laughter" revival phenomenon.

Trager Stadium

Trager Stadium is a field hockey stadium located on the campus of the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

Tropics and Meridians

Tropics and Meridians is the second album by Louisville-based math rock band June of 44.

U.S. Route 460

Between St. Louis and Frankfort, it was a major highway in the pre-Interstate era, passing through Evansville, Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky.

UPS Airlines Flight 6

The captain, 48-year old Doug Lampe of Louisville, Kentucky, and the first officer, 38-year old Matthew Bell from Sanford, Florida, died.

Valentin Preda

Preda is a former member of the swimming team for the Louisville Cardinals, and a graduate of exercise science at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky.

William Benjamin Dearborn Simmons

Among his most important instruments were the 1855 organ built for Dover Hall in Boston, the 1859 organ for Harvard University, and the 1860 organ for St. Paul's Cathedral in Louisville, Kentucky.

WLIL

One day he was working in Louisville, Kentucky and could see inside a radio station from where he was working.

WLMB

WLMB is owned and operated by Dominion Broadcasting, which is not related to Dominion Media, owners of WWJS-CD in the Louisville, Kentucky area.

Woodlawn trophy

Considered one of the most valuable trophies in sports, the trophy has its roots at the Woodlawn Race Course, a 19th century race track near Louisville, Kentucky.

WWKY

From 1989 to 2001, the call letters WWKY were assigned to Louisville, Kentucky at 790 kHz, which had formerly been WAKY.


2009 Connecticut Huskies football team

Senior running back Andre Dixon ran for 153 yards and three touchdowns and Connecticut beat Louisville for the Huskies first Big East win of the season.

Air Kentucky

The airline was mentioned in the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; one of the main characters, Ned Plimpton, is a pilot for Air Kentucky.

Alexander Keith Marshall

Marshall was a member of the Kentucky constitutional convention held in Frankfort, Kentucky in 1849.

Anna Mac Clarke

While at Kentucky State, Clarke was a very active student, participating in sports, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, and the school's newspaper, The Kentucky Thorobred.

Anne Allen

Ann Taylor Allen (graduated 1965), professor of German history at the University of Louisville

Appalachian Stakes

First held in 1989, the Appalachian Stakes was named for the Appalachian Mountains which extend into Eastern Kentucky.

Battle of Camp Wildcat

Brig. Gen. Felix Zollicoffer's Confederates moved from Tennessee in an effort to push from Cumberland Gap into central Kentucky and gain control of the important border state.

Belle Meade Plantation

The bloodlines of Belle Meade Plantation, primarily due to the success of "Bonnie Scotland, a Belle Meade foundation stud, include famous descendants such as Secretariat, Funny Cide, Seabiscuit, Giacamo, Mine That Bird, Smarty Jones, and Barbaro, Since the 1990s, every horse that has run the Kentucky Derby is a blood descendent of Belle Meade Plantation foundations.

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee

In 1888, a work camp was established at Cumberland Gap by Scottish-born entrepreneur Alexander Arthur (1846–1912) to house workers needed to build a tunnel for the Knoxville, Cumberland Gap & Louisville Railroad.

Cumberland Presbytery

History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988, by Matthew H. Gore, Joint Heritage Committee of Covenant and Cumberland Presbyteries.

Edward H. Hobson

He was married to Katie Adair, a niece of Kentucky Governor John Adair.

Elna

Elna, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kentucky, USA

Georgetown Tigers

The Georgetown College Tigers are the sports teams of Georgetown College located in Georgetown, Kentucky.

Gregory Charvat

He built amateur radio equipment in high school, a radio telescope for which he won second place at the 1997 International Science and Engineering Fair in Louisville, KY, and developed many radar sensors in college.

Gunther Behnke

He was recruited by head coach Joe B. Hall to play for the University of Kentucky but became homesick and never appeared in a game for Kentucky.

Heath High School

Heath High School (Kentucky) in West Paducah, Kentucky, a now-closed school also known as the site of a notable shooting in 1997 in which three students were killed and five wounded

J. Edward Anderson

The Sky Loop plan was submitted to the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI), but the proposal was ultimately rejected by OKI's Central Area Loop Study Committee.

J. Madison Wright Morris

Once graduating from university in summer 2006, Madison planned to begin a job teaching English to tenth grade children at George Rogers Clark High School, located in Winchester, Kentucky.

Jamal Mashburn

He owns 34 Outback Steakhouse franchises, 37 Papa John's franchises, and a number of car dealerships across the state of Kentucky.

James Harrod

A contemporary of better known explorers like Daniel Boone, George Rogers Clark, Benjamin Logan, and Simon Kenton, Harrod led many expeditions into the regions that now form Kentucky and Illinois.

John Minton

John D. Minton, Jr. (born 1952), Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court

Kenny Rogers Roasters

It was founded in 1991 by country musician Kenny Rogers and John Y. Brown, Jr., who was former governor of the U.S. state of Kentucky.

Kentucky Oaks top three finishers

This is a listing of the horses that finished in either first, second, or third place and the number of starters in the Kentucky Oaks, the first leg of the defacto American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing, an American Grade 1 race for three year-old fillies at 1-1/8 miles (9 furlongs) on the dirt held at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky.

Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers

The Kentucky Wesleyan College Panthers are the athletic teams of Kentucky Wesleyan College, which compete in the NCAA Division II and the Great Midwest Athletic Conference.

Knob Lick

Knob Lick, Metcalfe County, Kentucky, an unincorporated community in Metcalfe County, Kentucky

Levi Todd

Two of his daughters married politicians, Jane Briggs marrying congressman Daniel Breck and Elizabeth Todd marrying Charles Carr, the son of Kentucky statesman Walter Carr.

Moundville Archaeological Site

The culture was expressed in villages and chiefdoms throughout the central Mississippi River Valley, the lower Ohio River Valley, and most of the Mid-South area, including Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi as the core of the classic Mississippian culture area.

Ole Miss Rebels

The younger Insell had spent the previous five seasons as an assistant under Matthew Mitchell at Kentucky.

Overmountain Men

Other influential Overmountain Men included John Crockett (father of Davy Crockett), William Lenoir, Joseph Dickson, Daniel Smith, William Russell, and John Rhea, all of whom were at Kings Mountain, and Anthony Bledsoe, who commanded the homeguard for the Holston settlement while the main force was away.

Petrino

Bobby Petrino (born 1961), current head coach at University of Louisville

Scott May

With May's injury keeping him to 7 minutes of play, the No. 1 Hoosiers lost to Kentucky 92-90 in the Mideast Regional.

St. Michael Elementary School

On August 6, 2006, a new Community Center was dedicated by the Archbishop Thomas C. Kelly and the current mayor of Louisville Jerry Abramson.

Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr.

In 2004 Bowling sued the Kentucky State Department of Corrections along with fellow inmate Ralph Baze on the grounds that execution by lethal injection constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Tri-state area

Three other prominent areas that have been labeled tri-state areas are the Cincinnati tri-state area, including Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana; the Pittsburgh tri-state area, covering parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia; and the Chicago tri-state area, also known as Chicagoland, which includes Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Waterfront Development Corporation

An agreement to provide equal funding between the governments of Louisville, Jefferson County, and the Commonwealth of Kentucky led to the creation of the Waterfront Development Corporation.

WBLN

WQQR, a radio station (94.7 FM) licensed to Clinton, Kentucky, United States, which used the call sign WBLN from March 1997 to March 1998

WDFB

WDFB-FM, a radio station at 88.1 FM licensed to Danville, Kentucky

Wildcat Mountain

Battle of Camp Wildcat (Battle of Wildcat Mountain), an American Civil War battle in Laurel County, Kentucky

William Thorne

William P. Thorne (1845–1928) Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky (1903–1907)

Williamson, West Virginia

South Williamson is an unincorporated area of Pike County and is associated with the adjacent Kentucky neighborhoods of Goody and Belfry.

WKDZ

WKDZ-FM, a radio station (106.5 FM) located in Cadiz, Kentucky, United States