Owensboro is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky and the county seat of Daviess County. It is located on U.S. Route 60 about 32 miles southeast of Evansville, Indiana and is the principal city of the Owensboro, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 55,512 at the 2008 U.S. Census Estimate. The city was named after Colonel Abraham Owen. Owensboro is the second-largest city in the Tri-State region of Illinois, I...
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Owensboro is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky and the county seat of Daviess County. It is located on U.S. Route 60 about 32 miles southeast of Evansville, Indiana and is the principal city of the Owensboro, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 55,512 at the 2008 U.S. Census Estimate. The city was named after Colonel Abraham Owen. Owensboro is the second-largest city in the Tri-State region of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky after Evansville, Indiana.
Stretching out for more than five miles along the meandering south bank of the mighty Ohio River lies the sprawling steel town of Owensboro, in the bluegrass state of Kentucky. St Louis, the 2nd largest city in Missouri, is 200 miles to its north-west, while some 120 miles south is the home of country music itself: Nashville, Tennessee. To the north, on the other side of the river, lies Indianna;to the east, Virginia of which Kentucky was originally a part. During the American Civil War,...
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