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Chestnut Streeet, Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
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Chestnut Streeet, Shippingport, Pennsylvania.
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I'm not going to act like it has been easy with all these kids running around here... screaming... acting like they want bottles... making bottles and them looking at me crazy like they don't want the fake stuff😵💫😵💫😵💫 yes. The proper word for it is STRESS! We just have to make it in to March/ April and you know what happens... Not curry goat! GOAT YOGA! Dates are coming soon. Healthy babies being born! #kentuckianabackyardfarms #oldloubrew #shippingport #brewery #kbf #goatyoga #goatsofinstagram (at Louisville, Kentucky) https://www.instagram.com/p/Con-owuNPMx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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LIFE ON A DESERTED ISLE!
LIFE ON A DESERTED ISLE!
At its height, Shippingport Island had a population of 600. (this was back when Louisville was a small town) After the 1937 flood, all the businesses left, but people lived on the island until 1958 when the federal government evicted them. Nothing is left except forest. The homes along the canal disappeared during a 1920’s widening of the Portland Canal.
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BUSINESS ON A DESERTED ISLE!
BUSINESS ON A DESERTED ISLE!
Until the 1937 flood, Shippingport was home to many businesses: Tarascon Mill (at different times, flour and cement) and the McHarry Hotel being the most famous. Before the canal was built, boats going downriver unloaded in Louisville and their load was taken by horse and wagon to Shippingport to be loaded onto boats bound for the Mississippi.
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Deserted Isle: Louisville’s First Race Track
Deserted Isle: Louisville’s First Race Track
In 1829, Elm Tree Gardens Racetrack was built on Shippingport Island. A gondola service ferried customers to the island. It also featured the Napoleon Distillery (Churchill Downs, are you listening?). Elm Tree Gardens was also the site of Louisville’s first amusement park; mazes, puzzle gardens, and a long rope walk. It closed in 1873 due to floods and changing times.
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Deserted isle
Shippingport Island is beside the Falls of the Ohio, now part of Louisville. In 1785, it was named Campbell Town. After 1803, French settlers named it Shippingport. A thriving community had a cement mill, distillery, and a racetrack. Construction of the 1825 Louisville and Portland Canal turned Shippingport into an island. The 1937 flood drove most of the town out, the last of residents being…
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