Shively, Kentucky

Coordinates: 38°11′35″N 85°48′58″W / 38.19306°N 85.81611°W / 38.19306; -85.81611
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Shively, Kentucky
FIPS code
21-70284
GNIS feature ID2405462[3]
Websitewww.shivelyky.gov
Monument at Shively City Hall

Shively is a

2000
.

History

See also:
History of the Germans in Louisville

After Louisville was founded at the

Maj. Abner Field, and the Shivelys, Christian William and Jacob. Christian opened a mill and tavern on his 1,000-acre (400 ha) tract near Mill Creek and the road connecting Louisville to the Salt River. (The road would later be incorporated as the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike.[6]
) The buildings became the focus of a settlement known as the "Shively precinct". In 1816, he donated the land for a church that is today known as Parkview Methodist.

A stagecoach stop was opened in 1831. The Elizabethtown and Paducah Railroad arrived in the 1870s.[6]

Shortly before the

German immigrants, mostly from Bavaria. In 1897, they erected St. Helen's Catholic Church. The community was commonly known as "St. Helen's" for the next few years, but the post office (est. 1902) could not adopt it because there was another community with the name in Lee County.[6]

A streetcar line was extended to the area in 1904.

Eight whiskey distilleries opened nearby after the end of Prohibition. When Louisville tried to annex and tax them during the Great Depression, the distillers talked the residents of Shively into incorporating separately (finalized May 23, 1938) and annexing their district instead. Their $20-million revenue stream left the small city well funded.

During the 1950s, it became the state's fastest-growing city as white flight and suburbanization reached Louisville.

The area was long

U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a related case in 1956.[13] After the bombing, the Wades left and very few other blacks attempted to move in, and the community remained a largely white "sundown town" well into the 1960s.[14] Since the 1970s, the black population has grown to about 30 percent, a greater percentage than in the Louisville metropolitan area
as a whole, and more than double the percentage in the U.S. population as a whole.

Increased taxes and changing tastes closed most of Shively's distilleries in the late 1960s. Shively's population has gradually declined since reaching 19,223 in 1970. Budget surpluses became shortfalls, and Shively tried but failed to annex more suburban territory in

Pleasure Ridge Park in 1984. The same year, the town was hit with a scandal when police chief Michael Donio admitted to taking bribes to allow prostitution
in the area. Such events led to the community's reputation as "Lively Shively" (as the name of the town is pronounced with a "long i", this is a rhyme).

The area's fortunes have since improved somewhat, with various public works projects occurring and some businesses moving to the area. However, the area along Seventh Street north of Dixie is still known for its seedy

adult entertainment businesses.[15] Into the 2000s, the area lagged behind eastern and southern Jefferson County, with one of its few remaining large retail centers, the 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m2) Dillard's on Dixie Highway (est. 1956), closing in 2007 due to slow sales at the location despite the chain's general profitability in the Louisville area.[16]

Shively remains the site of one major operating distillery:

Heaven Hill Distilleries
, opened in nearby Louisville around 2000.

On November 5, 2018, Democrat Beverly Chester-Burton became the first African-American to be elected mayor of Shively.[19]

Geography

Shively is centered on the junction of

Pleasure Ridge Park to the south. Shively is 5 miles (8 km) southwest of downtown Louisville
.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Shively has a total area of 4.6 square miles (11.9 km2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.02 km2), or 1.73%, are water.[5]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
19401,273—
19502,40188.6%
196015,155531.2%
197019,13926.3%
198016,645−13.0%
199015,535−6.7%
200015,157−2.4%
201015,2640.7%
202015,6362.4%
U.S. Decennial Census[21]

As of the

Latino
of any race were 1.39% of the population.

There were 6,667 households, out of which 25.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.1% were married couples living together, 17.0% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.8% were non-families. 34.0% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.84.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 21.7% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 28.2% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 20.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $31,422, and the median income for a family was $38,652. Males had a median income of $31,368 versus $25,190 for females. The

poverty line
, including 26.7% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.

Education

Shively has a lending library, a branch of the Louisville Free Public Library.[23]

References

  1. ^ a b Commonwealth of Kentucky. Office of the Secretary of State. Land Office. "Shively, Kentucky". Accessed 26 August 2013.
  2. ^ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved March 18, 2022.
  3. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Shively, Kentucky
  4. ^ "Summary and Reference Guide to House Bill 331 City Classification Reform" (PDF). Kentucky League of Cities. Retrieved December 30, 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Shively city, Kentucky". American Factfinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved June 21, 2018.
  6. ^ a b c The Encyclopedia of Louisville, p. 819. "Shively". University Press of Kentucky (Lexington), 2001. Accessed 10 October 2013.
  7. ^ Interview with Eric Tachau and Mary Tachau, November 11, 1989, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky archives, Catherine Fosl, interviewer.
  8. ^ Howlet, Rick, Louisville Remembers a Tumultuous Time 60 Years Ago, WBUR-FM, December 1, 2014.
  9. ^ Interview with Andrew Wade, November 8, 1989, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky archives, Catherine Fosl, interviewer.
  10. ^ Video Interview with Anne Braden Archived 2015-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, Kentucky Historical Society.
  11. ^ Civil War to Civil Rights: Andrew Wade Home Bombing, Kentucky Historical Society
  12. ^ Wade, Andrew IV, Civil Rights Digital Library, Digital Library of Georgia, Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
  13. ^ Fox, Margalit, Anne Braden, 81, Activist in Civil Rights and Other Causes, Dies, The New York Times, March 17, 2006.
  14. The Courier-Journal
    . p. 06B.
  15. The Courier-Journal
    . p. 05B.
  16. The Courier-Journal
    . December 13, 2006.
  17. ^ Louisville Area Gets its Second Stop on the Bourbon Trail, WDRB, September 15, 2014.
  18. Business First
    , October 23, 2014.
  19. ^ "Shively elects first African-American mayor".
  20. ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
  21. ^ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2015.
  22. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  23. ^ "Kentucky Public Library Directory". Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Archived from the original on January 11, 2019. Retrieved June 5, 2019.

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