Louisville Kentucky is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border.
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48 Facts About Louisville Kentucky
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Since 2003, Louisville Kentucky's borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger.
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Early Louisville Kentucky was a major shipping port and enslaved African Americans worked in a variety of associated trades.
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In 1929, Louisville Kentucky completed the lock and dam in the Falls of the Ohio and the city began referring to itself as "where Northern enterprise and Southern hospitality meet".
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Between the industrial boom of that year and through the Great Depression, Louisville Kentucky gained 15, 000 new residents, about three percent of them black, most fleeing poverty in rural areas.
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Louisville Kentucky was a center for factory war production during World War II.
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This, in part, made Louisville Kentucky seem like a more racially progressive city than other Southern cities, although only when black citizens accepted a lower status than white citizens.
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Similar to many other older American cities, Louisville Kentucky began to experience a movement of people and businesses to the suburbs in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Louisville Kentucky is an Upper South city located in a Southern state that is influenced by both Southern and Midwestern culture.
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Louisville Kentucky's MSA is included in the Louisville Kentucky–Elizabethtown–Madison, KY–IN Combined Statistical Area, which includes the Elizabethtown, KY MSA, as well as the Madison, IN Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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Downtown business district of Louisville Kentucky is located immediately south of the Ohio River and southeast of the Falls of the Ohio.
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The Old Louisville Kentucky neighborhood is the largest historic preservation district solely featuring Victorian homes and buildings in the United States; it is the third-largest district containing such architectural distinctions in the United States.
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The buildings of West Main Street in downtown Louisville Kentucky have the largest collection of cast iron facades of anywhere outside of New York's SoHo neighborhood.
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Since the mid-20th century, Louisville Kentucky has in some ways been divided into three sides of town: the West End, the South End, and the East End.
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Louisville Kentucky has a humid subtropical climate, typical of the Upper South, and is located in USDA hardiness zones 6b and 7a.
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The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i of Louisville Kentucky was formed in 1944 when their community reached the required amount of nine adult Baha'is.
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Louisville Kentucky today is home to dozens of companies and organizations across several industrial classifications.
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Louisville Kentucky is a significant center of manufacturing, with two major Ford Motor Company plants, and the headquarters and major home appliance factory of GE Appliances.
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Brown-Forman, one of the major makers of American whiskey, is headquartered in Louisville Kentucky and operates a distillery in the Louisville Kentucky suburb of Shively.
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Similar to the Kentucky Bourbon Trail that links these central Kentucky locations, Louisville offers tourists its own "Urban Bourbon Trail", where people can stop at nearly 20 "area bars and restaurants, all offering at least 50 labels of America's only native spirit".
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Several major motion pictures have been filmed in or near Louisville Kentucky, including The Insider, Goldfinger, Stripes, Lawn Dogs, Elizabethtown, and Secretariat.
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Louisville Kentucky has blossomed as a booming center for independent art, music and business.
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Louisville Kentucky is home to a thriving indie music scene with bands such as Love Jones, Tantric, Squirrel Bait, CABIN, Slint, My Morning Jacket, Houndmouth, Young Widows and Wax Fang.
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The Louisville Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, opened in 1981, is a nonprofit organization.
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The United States Marine Hospital of Louisville Kentucky is considered by the National Park Service to be the best remaining antebellum hospital in the United States.
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The Louisville Kentucky area is home to the Waverly Hills Sanatorium, a turn-of-the-century hospital that was originally built to accommodate tuberculosis patients, and subsequently has been reported and sensationalized to be haunted.
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Louisville Kentucky Center, dedicated in 1983, located in the downtown hotel and entertainment district, features a variety of plays and concerts.
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Louisville Kentucky Orchestra was founded in 1937 by conductor Robert Whitney and Charles Farnsley, then Mayor of Louisville Kentucky, and was a world leader in commissioning and recording contemporary works for orchestra from the 1950s to 1980s.
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Actors Theatre of Louisville Kentucky, is in the city's urban cultural district and hosts the Humana Festival of New American Plays each spring.
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The Louisville Kentucky Cardinals have competed as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference, since joining that league in July 2014.
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The Louisville Kentucky market has ranked first in ratings for the NCAA men's basketball tournament every year since 1999.
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The Louisville Kentucky Wildcats used to play an annual game in Freedom Hall.
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Louisville Kentucky was one of the youngest players to ever receive the award.
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Louisville Kentucky has seven professional and semi-professional sports teams, The Louisville Kentucky Bats are a baseball team playing in the International League as the Triple-A affiliate of the nearby Cincinnati Reds.
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Between 1967 and 1976, Louisville was home to the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association.
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Louisville Kentucky has the added distinction of being the only city in the world that is the birthplace of four heavyweight boxing champions: Marvin Hart, Muhammad Ali, Jimmy Ellis and Greg Page.
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Louisville Kentucky Metro has 122 city parks covering more than 13, 000 acres.
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Until 2015, Louisville was one of two cities in Kentucky designated by the state as first-class.
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Since January 6, 2003, Louisville Kentucky has merged its government with that of Jefferson County, forming coterminous borders.
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Louisville Kentucky was the second and only other city in the state to merge with its county.
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The residents of the semi-independent municipalities within Louisville Kentucky Metro are apportioned to districts along with all other county residents.
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The new Seal of Louisville Kentucky Metro retains the fleur-de-lis, but has only two stars, one representing the city and the other the county.
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In 2020, Louisville Kentucky recorded 173 murders; and, in 2021, Louisville Kentucky recorded 188 murders amidst an ongoing violent crime wave in the city.
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Louisville Kentucky has recently been featured on the television show First 48.
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University of Louisville Kentucky has had notable achievements including several hand transplants and the world's first self-contained artificial heart transplant.
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Louisville Kentucky has historically been a major center for railway traffic.
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