💡 Interesting Facts
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Office Building in Louisville, Kentucky is one of the largest commercial Beaux Arts buildings still in existence?the Peterson-Dumesnil House in Louisville, Kentucky, was once the only club in the United States open exclusively to teachers?the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church?the Forecastle Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, was named one of Outdoor Magazine's "Top 15 Outdoor Summer Music Festivals"?the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes?the 32nd Indiana Monument, currently at Cave Hill National Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest surviving American Civil War memorial?the Schuster Building in Louisville, Kentucky was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 as a "significant example" of Colonial Revival architecture?the United States Marine Hospital (pictured) in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US?two-thirds of pioneers arriving in Indiana from Louisville] used the Buffalo Trace to settle the state?when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky?the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?the influx of Irish to Louisville (example of Irish-built housing pictured) led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860?the Old Fashioned, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail, was invented at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1880s?singer Elvis Presley (pictured) is said to have made an impromptu performance at Colonial Gardens in Louisville's Senning's Park, while visiting his nearby grandparents?Boxhill, a mansion near Louisville, Kentucky, sat vacant for years after it was the site of a double homicide, and was restored by the wife of a former Kentucky governor?Neville Miller is remembered as Louisville, Kentucky's "flood mayor" for his strong leadership during the Ohio River flood of 1937?New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?Louisville, Kentucky's first parking garage was built in 1953, as an addition to the 1913 Starks Building (pictured)?Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes?Louisville, Kentucky's first rock and roll venue, in Lake Dreamland, may have been burned down by an angry resident?Paul C. Barth, former mayor of Louisville, Kentucky, committed suicide after being ridiculed for a scandal involving the use of city funds to buy an expensive saddle horse?Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky's 26-mile (42-km) parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss?political boss John Henry Whallen influenced every election in Louisville, Kentucky from 1885 until his death in 1913?in addition to its bus services, Louisville's Transit Authority of River City operates diesel-powered, rubber-tired trolleys to service downtown hotel and shopping districts?during a flood in 1937, Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby?a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?