Shippingport, Kentucky is an industrial site and one of the six formerly independent settlements at the Falls of the Ohio in what is now Louisville, Kentucky. It was located on a peninsula on the sout
Shippingport as it looks today
The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its l
Shippingport, Kentucky
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View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846.
Louisville's founder George Rogers Clark as painted by James Barton Longacre in 1825
Lewis and Clark on the Lower Columbia by C.M. Russell
Historical marker from the corner of Second and Main in downtown Louisville describing the slave trade