Category: History - American
The utility and profit of the local history of cities is no longer a matter of doubt. Whether considered solely as objects of interest or amusement, or as having the still wider utility of making known abroad the individuality of the places they describe, these records are wor...
This history now approaches a period so recent, that it will hardly be necessary to chronicle the events of the next decade with as much minuteness as has heretofore been attemp...
1. CHAPTER I.The utility and profit of the local history of cities is no longer a matter of doubt. Whether considered solely as objects of interest or amusement, or as having the still wider...
5. CHAPTER V.The series of details, mostly of an uninteresting and dry nature, which were so hastily passed over in the last chapter seem to have been but the precursors to events of a chara...
2. CHAPTER II.1780--During the same year in which the town was established Kentucky received many valuable additions to its inhabitants; among these several persons of wealth or of talent cam...
3. CHAPTER III.Having passed over these pleasant and exciting histories of personal adventure, the reader now returns to the soberer chronicles of general history. In the spring of 1783 it bec...
6. CHAPTER VI.The next ten years of this history do not promise to be as rich in incident for the historian, or as full of practical value to the city, as were the few years just chronicled....
7. CHAPTER VII.The opening of the next year--1830--found the young city in a highly prosperous and thriving position. The security and permanence given to enterprise by the charter had its eff...
4. CHAPTER IV.The opening of a new century found Louisville with a population of 800 souls, with power to elect her own Trustees, with a revenue arising from her own taxes, and in the enjoyme...