Identifier: collinshistoricav02coll (find matches)
Title: Collins' historical sketches of Kentucky : history of Kentucky
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870 Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889
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Publisher: Covington, KY : Published by Collins & Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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argelybecause a branch of the Bank of Kentucky was established at .Louisville, realestate rapidly enhanced in value, and these Main street lots sold as high as$4,000 and $5,000 each. A still further enormous advance took place in 1817,upon the location of a branch of the United States Bank—these same lotsselling for $300 per foot, or over $30,000 each. The Number of Buildings in Louisville, in 1819, was 670, principally brick—some of them comparing inelegance with the best private residences in Phila-delphia and New York. In Feb., 1873, the number of houses was estimatedat 25,000. Louisville has always been famous for the great elegance of herprivate residences, and the general disposition to provide handsome and com-fortable homes. The First Policemen were John Ferguson and Edward Dowler, in 1810 ;salary $250 per annum. * See history of this escheat, page 183, ante, which we rescued from the papers of anold suit in 1792 in Fayette county. R.H.C. J McMurtries Louisville, page 111.
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JEFFERSON COUNTY. 3G1 Steam Navigation in the West.—In 1806, two barges—one of 3Q tons,belonging to Reed, of Cincinnati, the other of 40 tons, owned by Instone, ofFrankfort—and six keel-boats, did all the carrying trade of Louisville andShippingport. In 1812, at Pittsburgh, the first steamboat on the westernwaters was built and owned by Robert Fulton and Robert M. Livingston,named Orleans, of 200, or 300, or 400 tons burden (according to differentaccounts), with low-pressure engine ; was on her voyage during the great earth-quake, and reached New Orleans, Dec. 24, 1812 ; ran between New Orleansand Natchez, voyages averaging 17 days; on July 14, 1814, when on her uptrip, and lying by, opposite the upper end of Baton Rouge, she settled—byreason of a great fall of the river, during the night—on a sharp stump, whichwent through the bottom and sunk her. The 2d steamboat was the Comet, 45 tons, stern-wheel; built at Pittsburgh,1813, by Daniel French, using his new patent vibrating

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