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	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Louisville, Kentucky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Louisville is situated on the Kentucky-Indiana border at the only natural obstacle in the Ohio River, the Falls of the Ohio.
		Louisville is also home to the Callahan Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind, which features exhibits on the history of the education of the blind, as well as information on the printing process.
		Louisville is also home to the Portland Christian School and the Christian Academy of Louisville (CAL), the largest Protestant school system in the country in terms of student population.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Louisville,_Kentucky (6201 words)

	Louisville - louisville
		The Louisville area is also home to the Waverly Hills Sanatorium a turn-of-the-century (20th) hospital that was originally louisville zoo built to accommodate tuberculosis patients, and is now listed as one of the nation's most haunted houses.
		Louisville is also the home of Valhalla Golf Club which hosted the 1996 and 2000 PGA from louisville Championships, and will host the 2008 Ryder Cup.
		Louisville for a long time was also home to Brown and Williamson, one of the subjects of the tobacco university of louisville athletics industry scandals of the 1990s.
	www.meteoroloo.com /Met-North-America-L---N/Louisville.html (6197 words)

	Young Kentucky History
		After it was finished, for a while the economy of Louisville struggled, because the city was no longer needed for the shipment of goods by land past the Falls, but the coming of the railroad, the Louisville and Nashville, helped to make the city a center for transport in the region.
		Louisville was the gateway to the Western Waters, where thousands of people headed each year to settle the new territories.
		John Starkey, 1829: “Louisville is thought to have a population of between eight and ten thousand and appears to be readily increasing.
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	Elisha D. Standiford, M.D.
		He served faithfully and for several years upon the Louisville Board of Education; was sent by the suffrages of fellow citizens to the State Senate in 1868; was returned to the same body in 1872, and was there the main instrument in securing important legislation looking to the large permanent benefit of the State.
		Elisha D., M.D., President of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was born December 28, 1831, in Jefferson Co., KY. His father was a native of Kentucky, and followed agricultural and manufacturing pursuits, some of his ancestors emigrating at an early day, from Scotland, and settling in Maryland.
		In 1873 or 1874, he was elected Vice-President of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and, in 1875, was elected president, and still fills that position.
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	The Word Hoosier
		Indiana rivermen were so spectacularly successful in trouncing or "hushing" their adversaries in the brawling that was then common that they became known as "hushers," and eventually Hoosiers.
		There was once a contractor named Hoosier employed on the Louisville and Portland Canal who preferred to hire laborers from Indiana.
		Samuel Hoosier constructs his canal (or locks) on the river.
	www.indiana.edu /~librcsd/internet/extra/hoosier.html (7652 words)

	Ed Rogers Rare & Out of Print Books - Rare Mineralogy Books, Volcanology Books, Mining Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Cross, Whitman, et.al.; Report of the Committee of the National Academy of Sciences on Panama Canal Slides.
		Rare, first edition of a comprehensive look at the development in modes of travel in America from Colonial Times to the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.
		The role of the earlier canal systems is discussed in depth as is the role played by the expansion of the railroads and wagon roads in the opening of the west.
	www.geology-books.com /mineralogy-catalog.html (12450 words)

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