Tornado in Owen County, Kentucky | July 21

If you look at a map, you can still see the green, overgrown island of Shippingport sitting just northwest of downtown Louisville today 🗺️🏝️ But what most people don’t realize is that it wasn’t always an island .. In fact, originally it was CONNECTED to the footprint of Louisville - and was once home to hundreds of Louisville residents before a massive canal project in the 1820s physically cut it off from the rest of the city .. This is the story of Shippingport - one of Louisville’s earliest