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Saturday, May 27, 2017
Kentucky History
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Kentucky Trivia
May 27, 1778, Corn Island in the Ohio River is where the small band of pioneers who established Louisville first settled. During the following summer George Rogers Clark trained recruits for his Illinois campaign on the island, and the settlers planted corn and camped there until the fort on shore, Fort Nelson, was built in 1781.Part of Corn Island washed away and the rest was submerged when the dam at the Falls of the Ohio was built in the 1920s. It was mapped by Thomas Hutchins in 1766, at which time it measured 4,000 feet long and 1,000 feet wide, encompassing about seventy acres. It extended along the waterfront of present-day Louisville from 5th to 14th Streets, with its southernmost point near the first river pier of the K & I Railroad Bridge. During the late 1700s, the island was covered in “great sycamores, cottonwoods, and giant cane”. The Island was named for the first crop grown there, corn.
YESTERDAY’S MEMORIAL
May 26, 1963, Kentucky State Trooper William Everett Tevis was shot and killed while off-duty and riding with another trooper.
KENTUCKY HEADLINES
100 Years Ago Today
Sunday, May 27, 1917
Lexington Herald
Women, Babies Die By Scores In Air Attack
22,419 Captured By Italians In New Offensive
$2,000,000 Oil Firm Locates In Winchester
New Band To Appear At Blue Grass Park Opening
HORLICK’S
THE ORGINAL MALTED MILK
For Infants and Invalids
Substitutes Cost You Same Price
A Nutritious Diet For All
Lexington Herald
P. Lorillard Says Tobacco Leaf Plants Are Threated By Asphalt Plant; $14 Million Worth
Turnpike Agency Approves Two Proposed Toll Roads In Kentucky
Cincinnati, Parts of N.KY Are Blacked Out
River Traffic Stops On Ohio
Don’t Let The Price Fool You
Bourbon deLuxe
Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
It’s a Great Kentucky Bourbon Only
$4.10 4/5 Qt $2.55 Pint $1.30 ½ Pint
