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Encyclopedia Britannica



OWENSBORO

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 396 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ORC-PAI
OWENSBORO , a city and the county-seat of Daviess county, Kentucky, U.S.A., on the
Ohio
  river, 112 M. by
rail
  W.S.W. of
Louisville
 . Pop. (1890) 9837; (1900) 13,189, of whom 3061 were negroes; (1910
census
 ) 16,or r. The city is served by the
Illinois
  Central, the
Louisville
  & Nashville, and the Louisville, Henderson & St Louis railways, and by steamboat lines to river ports. At Owensboro are the Owensboro College for women (non-sect.), opened in 1850, Saint Francis
Academy
 , and a Roman Catholic school for boys. Two miles S. of the city is Hickman Park (20 acres), a pleasure resort, and E. of the city is a summer
Chautauqua park. Owensboro is situated in a good agricultural region; coal, iron, building stone, clay, oil, lead and zinc abound in the vicinity; and the city has a notably large
trade
  in tobacco (especially strip tobacco) and has various manufactures. The value of the city's factory products increased from $1,740,128 in 1900 to $4,187,700 in 1905, or 140.6%. The municipality owns and operates its electric-
lighting
  plant and water-works. Owensboro was settled about 1798, and for several years was commonly known as Yellow Banks; in 1816 it was laid out as a town and named Rossborough, and two years later the present name was adopted in honour of Colonel Abraham Owen (17691811), a Virginian who removed to Kentucky in 1785, served in several Indian
campaigns
 , and was killed in the battle of Tippecanoe. Owensboro was incorporated as a city in 1866.


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