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Louisville, Illinois. Location of Louisville in Clay County, Illinois. / 38.77139°N 88.50639°W / 38.77139; -88.50639. Louisville ( / ˈluːɪsvɪl / LOO-iss-vil) [2] is a village in Clay County, Illinois, United States, along the Little Wabash River. The population was 1,136 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Clay County.
Vincennes Trace. The Vincennes Trace was a major trackway running through what are now the American states of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. Originally formed by millions of migrating bison, the Trace crossed the Ohio River near the Falls of the Ohio and continued northwest to the Wabash River, near present-day Vincennes, before it crossed to ...
Bailey was born in Louisville, Illinois, on March 17, 1966. He graduated from North Clay High School and earned an Associate of Science degree in Agricultural Production from Lake Land College. Political career. Bailey, of Xenia, Illinois, was a member of the North Clay Board of Education.
Frazier History Museum. Historic Locust Grove Visitors Center, which includes a museum. Howard Steamboat Museum ( Jeffersonville, Indiana) Kentucky Derby Museum. Kentucky Railway Museum ( New Haven) Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory. My Old Kentucky Home State Park ( Bardstown) Portland Museum. Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing Visitors ...
UTC−5 ( CDT) Congressional district. 12th. Website. claycountyillinois .org. Clay County is a county in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 13,288. [1] Since 1842, its county seat has been Louisville, in the center of the county's area.
History. The IC was one of the oldest Class I railroads in the United States. The company was incorporated by the Illinois General Assembly on January 16, 1836. Within a few months Rep. Zadok Casey (D-Illinois) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives authorizing a land grant to the company to construct a line from the mouth of the Ohio River to Chicago and on to Galena.
John Riley Tanner (April 4, 1844 – May 23, 1901) was the 21st Governor of Illinois, from 1897 until 1901. Tanner was the first governor in the country to be openly neutral in labor disputes, gaining national notoriety for his actions in a series of coal mine disputes. With the Spanish–American War looming, he was the only governor to raise ...
Nathaniel Pope (January 5, 1784 – January 23, 1850) was an American government leader in the early history of the State of Illinois.He served as the Secretary of the Illinois Territory, then as a Delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Illinois Territory, and for over thirty years as the United States district judge for the United States District Court for the ...