CONTENTS.

Position of Louisville—Falls of the Ohio[15]
Advent of Captain Bullitt[16]
Bullitt’s Interview with the Indians[17]
Campbell’s and Conally’s Patents[21]
Advent of General Geo. R. Clark[22]
Clark’s Expedition to Virginia[23]
"Secret orders from Patrick Henry[25]
"Arrival at the Falls[28]
Account of a social party in 1779[31]
Account of life on the Frontier[32]
The Hard Winter[43]
Act for establishing the town[44]
Early surveys of the town[47]
Reminiscences of the Ponds[50]
Advent of Colonel Geo. Slaughter[53]
Incidents of the Indian Wars[54]
Division of the State into Counties[58]
Building of Fort Nelson[60]
Battle of Blue Licks[61]
Barge Navigation[62]
The Boatwreckers—Colonel Plug[67]
The Bargemen—Mike Fink[71]
Peace declared[81]
First Store in Louisville[83]
Tom Paine’s book[84]
First Kentucky Convention[85]
Clark’s Treaty at Fort McIntosh[86]
"Expedition to Vincennes[89]
Mississippi Troubles[90]
First newspaper in Kentucky[97]
Act in relation to the Trustees—Major Quirey[98]
Kentucky erected into a State[102]
First Paper Mill—Tax list[103]
Office of Falls Pilot created—Fire companies established[104]
Acts of Assembly—1800[107]
Anecdote[109]
Jeffersonville—Shippingport[110]
First Canal Company chartered[112]
First newspaper in Louisville[115]
Second tax list[116]
Theater[117]
Establishment of a Police[118]
Courthouse built—Early Steam Navigation[119]
Earthquakes, description of, and table[121]
Western Courier (newspaper) established[126]
List of Steamboats up to 1819[128]
First Catholic Church[134]
First Bank—Foundry[135]
Paving the Streets[136]
First Methodist Church—Portland laid out—New Albany[137]
Manifest of Barges—Unhealthiness of Louisville[139]
List of Stores &c.[140]
Trip of the Enterprize—First boat built[141]
Shinplaster currency[142]
Hope Distillery[143]
Fearon’s account of Louisville[144]
Branch Bank of the United States[146]
First Presbyterian Church built—burned[147]
Hospital Company incorporated[148]
Dinner to Captain Shreve[150]
Death of General Geo. R. Clark[151]
Price Current—1818—Commercial Bank—Public Advertiser[152]
Dr. McMurtrie’s Sketches of Louisville[153]
J. J. Audubon—Visit of President[155]
Purchase of Fire Engines[159]
Tax list and Census for 1821[160]
Commonwealth Bank established[162]
Issue of Town Notes—Epidemic of 1822[163]
First Episcopal Church—Lafayette’s Visit[165]
Building a Wharf—Louisville and Portland Canal[166]
The Focus—Resolutions for a Charter[173]
Louisville becomes a City[174]
First City Officers[177]
Bank Robbery—New Methodist Church—City School[179]
Second Presbyterian Church—Daily Journal[182]
Bank of Kentucky built—Louisville Lyceum[184]
Flood of ’32—Unitarian Church—Directory &c.[185]
Bank of Louisville chartered—Museum[187]
Government Deposites removed[188]
Water Works[189]
Comical Guards[190]
Death of Lafayette[191]
Tax List—Table of Exports &c. 1830[192]
Bridge over the Ohio—Panic of ’37[194]
Notice of Amelia’s Poems[195]
Medical College[197]
Portland Railroad[198]
Newsletter—Historical Society—Provident Society[199]
Visit of America Vespucci[200]
Introduction of Gas[202]
Great Fire[203]
Statistics of ’45[205]
Opening of Louisville and Frankfort Railroad[206]
New Charter[208]
Louisville and its environs[209]
Society of Louisville[210]
Churches, Streets, &c.[216]
Public Education[219]
Health[225]
Markets—Periodicals[227]
Table of Occupations[228]
Commercial Statistics[230]
Louisville as a Market for Tobacco[234]
""""Cotton[237]
""""Pork[240]
Manufacturing Statistics[241]
Conclusion[247]
Appendix

HISTORY OF LOUISVILLE.