Louisville
a city and county-seat county-seat of Jefferson co., Ky.; on the Ohio river, and on the Louisville and Nashville; the Louisville, Henderson and St. Louis; the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and winden. For 21 years he remained exiled St. Louis; the Chicago, Indianapolis and from from France, living in various European Louisville; the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis; Illinois Cenbecome Duke of Orleans on the death tral; the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the of his father in 1793, and in 1809 he Southern railroads. The city is built at married the daughter of Ferdinand IV. the falls of the Ohio 400 miles from its of Naples. After the fall of Napoleon mouth, and is also known as Falls City, I. he returned to France and was rea name derived from these rapids which instated in his rank and property. At are 27 feet high. Area, 14,348 acres; the revolution of July, 1830, he made "Lieutenant-General of the Kingdom," and in August became king of the French.
He reigned for 18 years, when the revolution of 1848 drove him from the throne to England, where he remained till his death in Claremont, Aug. 26, 1850.
LOUIS QUATORZE (kä-tōrz'), the name given to a meretricious style of architecture and internal decoration which prevailed in France in the reign of Louis XIV. It was marked by a deterioration of taste, the natural laws of architecture being more and more neglected, and replaced by certain conventional rules for the application of the Roman columnar orders. The windows are larger, the rooms more lofty, than in the preceding period, and in everything there was a striving after pomp and sumptuousness. Gilt stucco pop. (1910) 223,928; (1920) 234,891.
The city is provided with modern water and lighting systems, and there is an abundance of electrical power for industrial purposes.
The public buildings of Louisville are of a solid and substantial character. They include the Court House, which is a limestone structure costing $1,000,000; the City Hall; Free Public Library; the United States Government Building; Masonic Temple; Commerce Building; Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home; many public and semi-public institutions, and a magnificent city hospital. Louisville has nearly 250 large industrial plants. These include woodworking plants, metalworking plants, tobacco factories, textile mills, varnish manufactories, paint manufactories, large oil refineries, elevator plants, leather industries, refrigerating machinery plants, LOUNSBURY clothing factories. The total value of manufactured products in Louisville amounts to $313,000,000 per annum. is the center of the tobacco industry of the United States.
It There were in 1920 four National and ten State banks, with deposits of over $100,000,000. The city has a branch of the Federal Reserve district bank. The bank clearings in 1919 were $1,635,533,- 961.
In 1920 over 35,000 children were enrolled in the public schools. There were 3 high schools, and 70 school buildings.
The institutions of higher education include the University of Louisville (academic, law and medical departments); the Jefferson School of Law; the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; the Presbyterian Theological Seminary of Kentucky, and several important institutions for the education of colored people. There are several excellent daily papers, including the famous "Courier- Journal."
History. The first settlement was made here in 1778 by 13 families under Col. George Roger Clarke. Two years later the place was incorporated by an act of the Virginia Legislature, and called Louisville in honor of Louis XVI. of France, whose soldiers were then aiding the Americans in the Revolutionary War. During its early history it suffered greatly from Indian attacks. It was chartered as a city Feb. 13, 1828.
In 1890 it was visited by a cyclone which destroyed $3,000,000 worth of property and killed 100 persons.