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Kentucky Transportation History

By sara_mankovich

  • The first steamboat route is opened from Louisville to New Orleans.

  • Steamboat fever

  • Transition to sidewheelers and sternwheelers

  • KY had roughly 596 miles of railway

  • Eastern Kentucky Railway begins

  • Lexington Omnibuses

  • Kentucky Wagon Manufacturing Kentucky founded in Louisville

  • Mule cars

  • the electric streetcar is brought to Lexington

  • KWMC creats automobile body

  • Bowman Field begins in Louisville

  • The motor bus is brought to Lexington

  • Blue Grass Airport operates the first jet.

  • The trolley bus is brought to Lexington