What is the origin of the courier journal newspaper?”
All that remains is a house, but the community of Sugar Valley was once much more. David Strange, executive director of the Bullitt County History Museum, wrote about the community in his latest “E-Newsletter for the Friends of the Bullitt County History Museum.” I’m publishing it here with his permission. “Few people now remember the little community of Sugar Valley in Bullitt County. And I confess to not actually knowing a lot about it myself,” he began. “It seems much has been lost to memory and to the confusion of partially-recorded history. “Indeed, it was almost forgotten entirely until the state came through widening a road some years ago, and an engineer, using an outdated map, went around trying to find a ‘Sugar Valley’ that showed on that map.” I found a mention of a “Sugar Valley School” under Mount Washington on a genealogy Web site. (It also mentions that Mount Washington used to be called “Hells Kitchen.” Yikes!) History of Kentucky also mentions a distillery making “the
The Courier-Journal, nicknamed the “C-J”, is the main newspaper for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th largest daily paper in the United States and the single largest in Kentucky. The Courier-Journal also owns the alternative weekly paper Velocity, which is provided free of charge. The Courier-Journal was created from the merger of several newspapers introduced in Kentucky in the 1800s. Pioneer paper The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature, was founded in 1826 in Louisville when the city was an early settlement of less than 7,000 individuals.
