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4 unusual facts about Owensboro


George Helm Yeaman

He was admitted to the bar in 1852 and commenced practice in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Hardin Craig

Craig was born on a farm near Owensboro, Kentucky, to Robert and Mary Jane Craig, nee McHenry.

International Bluegrass Music Association

Formed in 1985, IBMA established its first headquarters in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Reo, Indiana

Owensboro, Kentucky's third-largest city, is nine miles south of Reo.


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.

Catherine Spalding

Under her leadership, schools and hospitals in Kentucky were founded, including Nazareth Academy (1814), St. Vincent's Academy (1820), St. Catherine's Academy - Lexington (1823), Presentation Academy (1831), St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum (1832), St. Joseph's Hospital (1836), and St. Francis' School at Owensboro (1850).

Herman Rattliff

The Republican candidate for governor that year, Thomas D. Emberton, was defeated by the sitting Democratic Lieutenant Governor Wendell Ford of Owensboro, who became a U.S. senator in 1975.

KWC

Kentucky Wesleyan College, a private Methodist college in Owensboro, Kentucky

Rank Strangers

These tours culminated in performances before the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) in Owensboro, Kentucky, alongside Emmylou Harris, Bill Monroe, Alison Krauss, Ralph Stanley, Doyle Lawson, Hot Rize, Peter Rowan, and others.

The Kentuckian

The picture was shot on location in Kentucky in the Cumberland Falls area, the Levi Jackson Wilderness Road State Park near London, Owensboro and Green River, and at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Village near Rockport, Indiana.

U.S. Route 231

At Owensboro, US 231 joins US 60 (also known as the Wendell H. Ford Expressway) around the city's east side, which it then follows to just north of Maceo.

William Huston Natcher

Also named in Natcher's honor in 1997 is the William H. Natcher Green River Parkway, a Kentucky state parkway (formerly a toll road) that runs between Bowling Green and Owensboro.

WIMM

WIMM-LP, a low-power radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to Owensboro, Kentucky, United States


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