Portal:Louisville/Did you know.../7

...that two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison, are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District?
...that after attempting to bribe a teammate to lose a game during the 1876 season, George Bechtel of the Louisville Grays became one of the first players banned for life from Major League Baseball?
...that the French once had an outpost called La Belle, where Louisville now stands?
...that when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States?
...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky?
...that three years after tying for its final Kentucky State Football championship, Flaget High School closed due to falling enrollment?
...that real estate developer James Graham Brown, who was worth $100 million when he died in 1969, lived most of his life in a small suite in his Brown Hotel?