BEN. CASSEDAY.
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.