The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852Casseday, Ben
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The History of Louisville, from the Earliest Settlement till the Year 1852
Casseday, Ben
Louisville (Ky.) -- Description and travel; Louisville (Ky.) -- History
On the 27th of May the first Unitarian church was dedicated. It is
situated at the corner of Walnut and Fifth streets, and was under the
direction of the Rev. Geo. Chapman, of Mass. The building of the
Louisville Hotel, and the issue of the first Directory ever printed here,
were also events of this period. This Directory was published by R. W.
Otis, and contains, beside much other valuable matter, a brief sketch of
the history of the city, from the pen of Mr. Mann Butler, the accomplished
historian of Kentucky. From it we get the following commercial table of
Imports from Dec. 1st, 1831, to Aug. 4th, 1832, which will prove
interesting to the reader of statistics:
Bale Rope 26,830 coils.
Bagging 33,411 pieces.
China, &c. 1,170 p'ckgs.
Coffee 18,289 bags.
Cotton 4,913 bales.
Mackerel 12,037 bbls.
Salt, Kan. and Cone 16,729 "
Salt, Turk's Island 18,146 bags.
Tea 63,500 lbs.
Flour 48,470 bbls.
Hides 19,121
Iron 631 tons.
Lead 231 "
Molasses 6,309 bbls.
Nails 10,395 kegs.
Sugar, N. O. 7,717 hhds.
" Loaf 4,318 bbls.
Tin Plate 3,108 boxes.
The inspection of whiskey during this time amounted to 14,627 barrels.
This Directory also gives the following as the statistics of manufactures:
One steam woolen factory, employs 30 hands and consumes 25,000 pounds of
wool per annum.
One cotton factory, employs 80 hands and consumes 500 bales annually;
works 1,056 spindles.
Two potteries.
One steam grist mill.
Two foundries, employing together 155 hands and consuming 1,200 tons of
iron per annum.
Sixteen brick yards.
One steam planing mill, with two machines and two circular saws; planes,
tongues, grooves, &c., about 2,000 feet of boards to each machine per day.
Three breweries.
Two white lead factories consume 600 tons lead annually.
Four rope walks, which work up 600 tons of hemp per annum.
Passing on as rapidly as may be, we come first to the chartering of the
Bank of Louisville. The books were opened for subscription to this bank in
March, 1833, and closed on the third day, $1,500,000 having been
subscribed in that brief period. By the act of incorporation the capital
was fixed at $2,000,000, but the commissioners were allowed to close the
books at any time after $500,000 were subscribed. Each director was
required to take oath not to permit any violation of this charter.
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