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
32d. The _Cedar Branch_--built in 1818, and owned at Maysville, Kentucky;
in the Louisville trade; 250 tons burthen.
33d. The _Experiment_--built at Cincinnati in 1818, and owned at that
place; 40 tons burthen.
34th The _St Louis_--built at Shippingport in 1818, and owned by Messrs.
Hewes, Douglass, Johnson and others; in the St. Louis trade; 220 tons
burthen.
35th. The _Vesta_--built at Cincinnati in 1817, and owned by Captain
Jenkins of that place; in the Louisville trade; 100 tons burthen.
36th. The _Rifleman_--built at Louisville in 1819, and owned by Messrs.
Butler and Barners, of Russelville, Kentucky; in the Louisville trade; 250
tons burthen.
37th. The _Alabama_--a small boat, built on Lake Ponchetrane in 1818; in
the Red River trade.
38th. The _Rising States_--built at Pittsburg in 1819, and owned by W. F.
Peterson and Co., of Louisville; in the Louisville trade.
39th. The _General Pike_--built at Cincinnati in 1819, intended to ply
between Louisville, Cincinnati, and Maysville, as a packet, and owned by a
company in Cincinnati.
40th. The _Independence_--owned by Captain Nelson, and intended to ply
between Louisville and St. Louis.
41st. The _United States_--built at Jeffersonville, Indiana, in 1819;
owned by Hart and others, and has two separate engines, made in England.
She is doubtless the finest merchant steamboat in the universe, drawing
but little water, and capable of carrying 3000 bales of cotton; in the
Louisville trade; 700 tons burthen.
The interest of this subject and the quantity of material which presses
upon us in regard to it have for awhile led us to forget the proper order
of our history, to which it will be necessary now to revert. Commencing
then with 1811 we have first to record the erection of a Catholic Chapel
by the Rev. Mr. Badin. This building was situated upon a lot given by Mr.
Tarascon, near the present corner of Eleventh and Main streets. It was
built in the Gothic style, and was a small edifice. The lot upon which it
stood was used as the cemetery of the church, and many years afterward in
digging out Eleventh street; skulls, bones, and portions of bodies were
thrown up from this graveyard.
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