Flood Damage

ID: 1945
This file appears in: Whiskey Row

This photograph from the 1913 flood show damages sustained to Ruby Distillery on Main Street (Whiskey Row) in Louisville. Courtesy of the University of Louisville.

This file appears in: Whiskey Row

By Tim Talbott and Christopher Beebout
Historical Marker #2104 in Louisville notes the historical significance of that city’s Main Street whiskey firms. Louisville’s rise to become Kentucky’s largest city in the nineteenth century was…