Portal:Louisville/Did you know.../5

...that the participants of the Great Steamboat Race, usually the Belle of Louisville and the Delta Queen, reach speeds of only seven miles an hour.
...that key donors of land to Louisville, Kentucky's 26-mile parkway system included a veteran of the Confederate Army and a notorious political boss?
...that newspaper editor George D. Prentice expressed regret later in life for fiery anti-Catholic editorials that played a role in the Bloody Monday riot of 1855?
...that a series of explosions destroyed two miles of Louisville, Kentucky's sewer system on Friday the 13th in February 1981?
...that Robert Worth Bingham purchased the Louisville Courier-Journal in 1918 using a bequest from his second wife, to whom he had been married for less than a year before her death?
...that Queen Elizabeth II was given a Louisville Stoneware musical box at the 2007 Kentucky Derby?