Louisville, Kentucky river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a system across 13 states. Today, the city is known as the home of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), the University of Louisville and its Louisville Cardinals athletic teams, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six "Fortune" 500 companies. Its main airport is also the site of United Parcel Service's worldwide air hub. Since 2003, Louisville's borders have
Louisville Herald-Post Louisville Herald-Post The Louisville Herald-Post was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky. "The Herald-Post" was created in 1925 from the merging of the old "Louisville Herald" and "Louisville Post" newspapers. Louisville financier James Buckner Brown sought to operate the paper as a counter to the positions of the Bingham newspapers the "Louisville Times" and the "Courier-Journal". The "Louisville Post"'s former editor Lewis Craig Humphrey became associate editor of the "Louisville Herald-Post". Brown invested nearly five million dollars in the combined newspapers. Brown lost his fortune in 1930 when his bank holding company BancoKentucky failed. After the BancoKentucky's failure,