St Louis

City of St. Louis, Missouri

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by Angie Cope

City of Lousiville and vicinity population 15,000 and 30,000 buildings, 1869

Louisville, Kentucky was founded in 1778 and named after King Louis XVI of France whose soldiers had assised Americans in the Revolutionary War. Louisville is one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachain Mountains and served historically as a portage city on the Ohio River. Building and maintenance of a canal began in 1826 with the first ship passing through in 1830. This map shows an ambitious new 11 mile canal proposed by the mayor of Louisville in 1869. The then mayor was Joseph H. Bunce who was a steamboat captain living in the Portland District near where the existing canal passed by.

The map promotes the economic prosperity of the city and was distributed by the Morris, Southwick & Co. Real Estate Brokers and Auctioneers. The map ws lithographed by German & Brother, a lithographic firm founded at Louisville in 1854 by Charles W. German (1837-1907) and Philip T. German which later became Falls City Lithographic Co. with Charles German as manager in 1881.

https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/…/coll…/agdm/id/21153/rec/15

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