Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) Casseday's History of Louisville. THE HISTORY OF LOUISVILLE, FROM ITS EARLIEST SETTLEMENT TILL THE YEAR 1852. BY BEN CASSEDAY LOUISVILLE, KY. HULL AND BROTHER. 1852. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, BY BEN. CASSEDAY, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Kentucky. HULL & BROTHER, PRINTERS AND BINDERS. 83 & 85 Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. To My Father, At whose Instance it was Undertaken. AND By whose Assistance it was Completed, This Book Is AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. PREFACE. Very little need be said by way of Preface to the present volume. Cities, like individuals, have ever found the utility of giving publicity to the advantages they possess. The respective claims to public consideration of almost all the larger American cities have already been set forth, and no inconsiderable sagacity has been displayed in the preparation and issue of these advertisements. It cannot be denied that Louisville has equal claim upon the community for a fair hearing with many of these cities, and this may serve as the apology which custom seems to render necessary for the publication of this volume. Louisville has attained her present rank and position without having resorted to any of the factitious means so generally employed to promote the progress of cities. A singular apathy in this regard has always pervaded this community, and the present prosperity of the city is the result only of fortuitous circumstances, of individual and unorganized effort, or of local causes. The following extract from one of a series of very able articles, published several years ago in the Louisville Journal, conveys a very caustic and severe, but, at the same time, a very just and merited rebuke of this apathetic indifference to political progress which has been characteristic of this city. The author says: "In the recent book of Judge Hall entitled "_The West--its commerce and navigation_," it is stated that "Louisville keeps no account of its business." Such is really the fact; we have no business organization--no chamber of commerce, no mercantile clubs--no Exchange, no place "where merchants most do congregate." Our city Fathers keep no record of our increase or doings, and it is doubted whether the Mayor or Council, with the Assessors and Collectors to advise with, can either guess or reckon our present population within 4,000, or the number of respectable tenements erected last year within 200 of the truth. There is not a series of our newspapers or price currents to which a stranger has the right of access; if, indeed, there be an entire series of either to be found in our city. Occasionally a Directory is got up and contains a few statistics gathered without