City Work House of Louisville

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1832

Dissolution Date

1954

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"City Work House of Louisville" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/O00012610, (accessed May 1, 2024).

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Louisville, Kentucky workhouse. Organized in 1832 to house male and female petty criminals, the poor, "those of bad repute," and those with infectious diseases. Managed by a committee of three trustees and a superintendent, with daily operations overseen by an elected keeper. Superintendent(s): Trustee(s): Keeper(s): M. G. Holmes (1861), James Kirkpatrick (1864).

"Board of Aldermen: Joint Session," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 19, 1861, p. 1.
Charter of the City of Louisville, Ky. (Louisville: L. A. Civill, Printer, 1862), 332-36.
"Council," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), October 14, 1864, p. 3.
"Louisville City Workhouse," Kentucky Historic Institutions, accessed January 26, 2022, https://kyhi.org/louisville-city-workhouse/.
Morton O. Childress, Louisville Division of Police History and Personnel (Paducah, KY: Turner Publishing Company, 2005), 62.
Gary Falk, Louisville Remembered (Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2009) 112-13.

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