Okolona sits at exactly the same elevation as Downtown Louisville despite being from the Ohio River, making it one of the city's most flood prone areas.

Eight whiskey distilleries opened in the area after prohibition ended, and this played an important role in the city's history when Depression-era Louisville soon tried to annex the area largely for the tax dollars the distilleries would generate.

The city's elevated rail station ( formally the ICRR ) was in downtown and had passenger service between Paducah & Louisville.

The club was located in Louisville at corner of Fifth and St. Catherine Streets at what was then the city's perimeter.

On the outskirts of Savannah, US-80 crosses Interstate 95 and follows Louisville Road into the city's downtown area.

This annexation moved the southern boundary of the city as far south as the city's House of Refuge, an area which is now the University of Louisville campus and the southern border of Old Louisville.

The parkland was given to Louisville by the U. S. Government in 1947, in recognition of the city's service during World War II.

Founded in 1969, the Louisville Zoo, or the Louisville Zoological Garden, is a zoo in Louisville, Kentucky, situated in the city's Poplar Level neighborhood.

The completion of Louisville Slugger Field along with a mass expansion of the city's

The City of Louisville had a separate Board of Education, and the city's population was declining.

While in Kentucky, Hammer was known for designing the official seal of Louisville, which was used until the city's city-county government merger in 2003.

In 1816 the Louisville Library Company, the city's first library, opened its doors with a subscription-based service.

Louisville had one of the largest slave trades in the United States before the Civil War, and much of the city's initial growth is attributed to that trade.

Its new campus, at Fourth and Broadway downtown, was underwritten by a group of Louisville business leaders, including the Norton family, eager to add the promising graduate-professional school to the city's resources.

Otter Creek Park was given to Louisville by the U. S. Government in 1947, in recognition of the city's service during World War II.

The team plays at Louisville Slugger Field at the edge of the city's downtown.

:* African American Oral History Collection at University of Louisville ( Louisville, Kentucky )

Some bands remain faithful to the original roots, while others continually expand the jug band repertoire to include other folk music, popular music, jazz and classical music forms, such as The Juggernaut Jug Band of Louisville, Kentucky ( formed in the late 1960s and possibly the only full-time jug band in existence at this time ), The Cincinnati Dancing Pigs ( who also have been together for 40 years ), The Carolina Chocolate Drops ( an African American jug band that also plays old-time African American fiddle tunes ), The Hobo Gobbelins, The Kitchen Syncopators and The Inkwell Rhythm Makers.

* Sam Smith, one of the first three African American basketball players at the University of Louisville.

The Court held that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to African Americans violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which protected freedom of contract, reversing the ruling of the Kentucky Court of Appeals.

On May 18, 2007, Radio One also divested its Louisville and Dayton clusters which included various stations such as WDJX and WLRS and WGTZ among others, citing the low percentage of African Americans in both cities as well as the amount of Non Urban stations.

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.

The petitioner, James Kirkland Batson, was an African American man convicted of burglary and receipt of stolen goods in a Louisville, Kentucky circuit court by a jury composed entirely of white jurors.

He is currently director of the African Centre for Advanced Studies in Porto-Novo and served as the Bingham Professor of Humanities from 1 August 2008 to 31 December 2008 at the University of Louisville in Louisville, KY.

At an African American Fourth of July celebration at Louisville ’ s camp — one that followed a parade through the city streets, including some fifteen hundred armed black and white soldiers and band — Palmer, arriving in a gilded circus chariot, told an estimated twenty thousand attendees, most of whom he had already been assured believed the general was there to declare them free ( and who he claimed later he set out to inform otherwise ), “ My countrymen, you are free, and while I command in this department the military forces of the United States will defend your right to freedom .” That one of its circuit courts was soon to strike down Congress ’ s act of March 3, 1865, liberating black soldiers ’ dependants — some 72, 045 individuals, or by one USCT officer ’ s estimate, “ wo and one half persons freed, for each Colored Soldier enlisted in the State of Kentucky ” and two-thirds of the state ’ s slaves — only fueled the general ’ s intent to cure the state ’ s white residents of “ Negrophobia in its worst form .” “ Slavery is dead in Kentucky ,” he crowed to his wife in October 1865, “ and my Mission is accomplished .” He was soon met with an indictment by Louisville ’ s grand jury for aiding fugitive slaves and a wave of lawsuits from dispossessed Kentucky slaveholders.

The Louisville Zoo has six geographic settings within the zoo: The Islands, African Veldt, Asian Plains, North and South America Panorama, Aquatics and the Australian Outback.

Category: African American history in Louisville, Kentucky

Today, Shawnee Park is a community asset for the African American Community of Louisville.

Shawnee's popularity is ironic and seen as bittersweet by some older African Americans in Louisville because of its segregated past.

Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist, was presented at Actors Theatre of Louisville in the Juneteenth Festival of African American plays.

Cascade tried to rebrand the channel as the Louisville Network, or LouNET, and aired locally produced shows, geared primarily towards the African American and Hispanic community.

Yaya currently teaches credit courses in African music and dance at Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, offers workshops in traditional African healing, music and dance and leads " The Healing Drum " tour to Mali, West African in April and December.

25 African Family Festival at the Louisville Zoo.

They now lead Louisville by a full game on top of the American Association pack.

He has collaborated with scholars of Islam, conceiving World Religions in America: An Introduction ( fourth edition, Louisville 2009 ), which explores how diverse religions have developed in the distinctive American context.

* American Life Building – Louisville, Kentucky ( 1973 ; completed after Mies's death by Bruno Conterato )

The current headquarters of the American Turners is in Louisville, Kentucky.

The term vaudeville, referring specifically to North American variety entertainment, came into common usage after 1871 with the formation of Sargent's Great Vaudeville Company of Louisville, Kentucky.

Panelists included Billie Jean King, All &# 8209 ; American NCAA point guard Shoni Schimmel of the University of Louisville, and Aimee Mullins, the first double-amputee sprinter to compete in NCAA track and field for Georgetown University.

B. Dahlgren, a prominent Union officer during the American Civil War, and shareholder in the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which later acquired the St. Louis & Southeastern.

The third largest American Civil War hospital, Jefferson General Hospital was located in nearby Port Fulton ( now within Jeffersonville ) from 1864 – 1866, as it was close to the river and Louisville.

The American Heritage " Big Red " Fire Museum is located in Louisville.

Another person suggested as the possible originator of the knuckleball is Toad Ramsey, who pitched for the Louisville Colonels in the old American Association.

Today, there are also students from several other American colleges, including the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville, University of Southern Indiana, Emory & Henry College, Baker University, Converse College, Eastern Illinois University, Western Kentucky University, Lenoir-Rhyne University, Catawba College, Houston Baptist University, The College of New Jersey, Texas Woman's University, Christopher Newport University, Missouri Baptist University, Ball State University, Lawrence Technological University, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Florida Southern College, and Judson University.

One pitcher, Guy Hecker, won a Triple Crown in a major league that is currently defunct ; he led the American Association in wins, strikeouts, and ERA in 1884 while pitching for the Louisville Colonels.

* National League v. American Association – Louisville Colonels ( AA ) ties Brooklyn Dodgers ( NL ) three games each.

Louisville, Kentucky had two professional American football teams in the National Football League: the Breckenridges ( or Brecks for short ) from 1921 to 1923 and the Colonels in 1926.

* Louisville Colonels 1892 – 1899 – transferred from American Association ; merged with Pittsburgh Pirates

** Add: Baltimore, Louisville, Saint Louis and Washington ( All from American Association )

Unknown to her, a friend entered it in the Great American Play Contest at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, and it was named co-winner and performed in February 1979 at the company's annual festival of New American Plays.

In 1982, the St. Louis Cardinals switched their Triple-A team of the American Association, the Redbirds, from Springfield, Illinois to Louisville.

For his efforts, Schmidt has been named American Baseball Coaches Association / Diamond Sports NCAA Division III Central Regional " Coach Of The Year " nine times ( 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2009 ), won the ABCA / Louisville Slugger Conference Award seven times from 1993 – 99, and has been named CCIW " Baseball Coach of the Year " on 10 occasions ( 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2007 and 2009 ).