Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Shippingport,_Kentucky> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 35 of
35
with 100 items per page.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky abstract "Shippingport, Kentucky is an industrial site and former settlement on a peninsula near the Falls of the Ohio in what is now Louisville, Kentucky. It was incorporated without a name on October 10, 1785, then became Campbell Town after Revolutionary War soldier John Campbell, who had been granted the land for his earlier service in the French & Indian War.In 1803 the settlement was sold to a Philadelphia-based partnership and renamed Shippingport. The new owners established a warehouse, rope walk and mill at the site, and the area began to be settled, primarily by French families fleeing the French Revolution and political chaos afterwards. From 1810 to 1820 the population jumped from 98 to over 500, and seriously challenged Louisville as Kentucky's most important port. Other early features included Elm Tree Garden, where there was horse-racing, and the Napoleon Distillery. A six-story flour mill built in 1817 became a symbol of Shippingport's success.Though the town frequently flooded, it reached its peak in the 1820s with a population of 600, but the digging of the Louisville and Portland Canal in 1825 made the peninsula an island, allowing ships to bypass the Falls and, by extension, Shippingport. In 1828, Louisville incorporated as a city and included Shippingport in its boundaries. Shippingport was hard hit by the loss of its traditional business. An introductory remark in the Louisville Directory of 1844 explained public sentiment towards the canal: "The Louisville and Portland Canal, as constructed and maintained, is precisely one of those improvements for private interests, at the expense of the public good, which is obnoxious to the good of the whole community".The remnants of the settlement dwindled over the next century as the canal was gradually widened, a hydroelectric plant was built on the island, and the area was devastated by the Ohio River flood of 1937, which forced most of the remaining families to leave. The federal government acquired the remaining private property there in 1958 to widen the canal, evicting the last families, some of whom had lived there for over a century.".
- Shippingport,_Kentucky thumbnail Shippingport.jpg?width=300.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky wikiPageExternalLink maps.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky wikiPageExternalLink kentucky.htm&date=2009-10-25+07:35:20.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky wikiPageID "6254811".
- Shippingport,_Kentucky wikiPageRevisionID "593042562".
- Shippingport,_Kentucky hasPhotoCollection Shippingport,_Kentucky.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky subject Category:Former_populated_places_in_Kentucky.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky subject Category:Geography_of_Louisville,_Kentucky.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky subject Category:History_of_Louisville,_Kentucky.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky point "38.2751 -85.7786".
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type FormerPopulatedPlacesInKentucky.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type GeographicalArea108574314.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type Location100027167.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type Object100002684.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type Region108630985.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type Site108651247.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type Tract108673395.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type YagoGeoEntity.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type YagoLegalActorGeo.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky type SpatialThing.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky comment "Shippingport, Kentucky is an industrial site and former settlement on a peninsula near the Falls of the Ohio in what is now Louisville, Kentucky. It was incorporated without a name on October 10, 1785, then became Campbell Town after Revolutionary War soldier John Campbell, who had been granted the land for his earlier service in the French & Indian War.In 1803 the settlement was sold to a Philadelphia-based partnership and renamed Shippingport.".
- Shippingport,_Kentucky label "Shippingport, Kentucky".
- Shippingport,_Kentucky sameAs m.0fz345.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky sameAs 4308220.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky sameAs Q7498084.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky sameAs Q7498084.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky sameAs Shippingport,_Kentucky.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky lat "38.2751".
- Shippingport,_Kentucky long "-85.7786".
- Shippingport,_Kentucky wasDerivedFrom Shippingport,_Kentucky?oldid=593042562.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky depiction Shippingport.jpg.
- Shippingport,_Kentucky isPrimaryTopicOf Shippingport,_Kentucky.