Daviess County Kentucky Bicentennial Celebration

Daviess County Kentucky Bicentennial Celebration A twenty-member community committee devoted to celebrating Daviess County, Kentucky's bicentennial in 2015.

Daviess County Bicentennial Committee plan to celebrate our
200th birthday through special public events, including unearthing
and reburying a time capsule at the Courthouse. We will also
gather our community's history by asking the public for pictures
of our past and sitting down for oral histories.

07/11/2017

Wendell Ford was elected President of the US Jaycees at their convention in Kansas City, MO, June 26-28, 1956. He served 1 year. There has been only one other Jaycee President from Kentucky.

Clarence C. Clark was the first professor to teach on Television in the US back in 1938 by teaching a college class over...
05/30/2017

Clarence C. Clark was the first professor to teach on Television in the US back in 1938 by teaching a college class over the TV facilities of NBC. He was also influential in the use of motion pictures for classroom instruction. He wrote many articles for professional journals and was author of Outlines of Science and co-author of This Living World and This Physical World. In 1935, he conducted a class using a shortwave radio transceiver (a radio that can both send and receive messages) from his home. Because the radio went both ways, Prof. Clark was able to take questions from the class. The April 1935 issue of Short Wave Craft magazine reported on Clark’s experiment as a harbinger of the bold new way that classes may one day be conducted by television. Clarence was from Owensboro and, at one time, taught at Owensboro High School. He died in September 1983 in Tampa, FL. "Radio" pictures are from Smithsonian Magazine and "TV" picture is from gizmodo

05/11/2017

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Owensboro was started in 1906

05/08/2017

There have only been 2 Miss Kentucky's from Owensboro...Rebecca Tollivar Snyder in 1965 and Cynthia Bostick in 1970.

04/27/2017

The first meeting of Daviess County Court was October 9, 1815, a little over 4 months after county was established.

04/20/2017

The Owensboro Fire Department was formed in 1866

04/10/2017

The drama,"The Runaway Wife," opened the Temple Theatre.

03/29/2017

Owensboro High School's Rash Stadium (Built in 1924) is named for Dr. O. W. Rash who helped raise $10,000 by encouraging 100 donors to put up $100 each. The result was a stadium, about 30 yards long, built on the west side of the field behind the school. Before that, OHS played on a converted baseball field or fairgrounds near Legion Park. In 1940, Rash spearheaded a drive for a larger stadium, and the WPA added more seats in 1941 on the side nearest the school.

In 1977 Owensboro artist C. G. Morehead painted a landscape barn yard using Peanut Butter called "Peanut Butter Painting...
03/16/2017

In 1977 Owensboro artist C. G. Morehead painted a landscape barn yard using Peanut Butter called "Peanut Butter Painting."

The original painting was donated to Green River Comprehensive Care Center (now River Valley). President Jimmy Carter also signed the original painting and 2,000 limited edition Hand Signed and Numbered prints were made.

03/10/2017

The father and grandfather of Ken Mattingly, pilot on Apollo 16 and who was played by Gary Sinise in the movie Apollo 13, were born in Daviess County. He has relatives buried in Lancaster Cemetery in west Daviess County.

03/08/2017

Two companies provided telephone service to Daviess County before Southern Bell (South Central Bell, BellSouth) - Home Telephone and Cumberland Telephone

Address

Owensboro, KY

Opening Hours

Monday 7:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 7:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 7:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 7:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 7:30am - 4:30pm

Telephone

(270) 685-8424

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