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  2. Airline Highway - Wikipedia

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    Airline Highway is a divided highway in the U.S. state of Louisiana, built in stages between 1925 and 1953 to bypass the older Jefferson Highway.It runs 115.6 miles (186.0 km), carrying U.S. Highway 61 from New Orleans northwest to Baton Rouge and U.S. Highway 190 from Baton Rouge west over the Mississippi River on the Huey P. Long Bridge.

  3. Huey P. Long Bridge (Baton Rouge) - Wikipedia

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    17,300. Location. The Huey P. Long - O.K. Allen Bridge (locally known as the Old Bridge) is a truss cantilever bridge over the Mississippi River carrying US 190 ( Airline Highway) and one rail line between East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana and West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana . Although the bridge is named after former Louisiana governors ...

  4. Louisville Male High School - Wikipedia

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    Ninth and Chestnut (1856–1897) Male was founded in 1856, being the oldest high school west of the Allegheny Mountains. [4] In 1861, Male was designated The University of Public Schools of Louisville and awarded bachelor's degrees until 1921, [4] after other high schools were established in the years following. the school was named Louisville ...

  5. United States Bullion Depository - Wikipedia

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    The United States Bullion Depository, often known as Fort Knox, is a fortified vault building located next to the United States Army post of Fort Knox, Kentucky. It is operated by the United States Department of the Treasury. The vault is used to store a large portion of the United States' gold reserves as well as other precious items belonging ...

  6. S. H. Kress & Co. - Wikipedia

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    A Kress building in Tampa, Florida. Kress opened his first stationery and notions store in Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, in 1887. The chain of S. H. Kress & Co. 5-10-25 Cent Stores was established in 1896 in Memphis, Tennessee. [1] In the 1920s and 1930s, Kress sold a house label of phonograph records under the Romeo trademark.

  7. Special routes of U.S. Route 61 - Wikipedia

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    1954–present. U.S. Highway 61 Business ( US 61 Bus.) runs 10.80 miles (17.38 km) through Baton Rouge, the capital city of Louisiana. [2] The route is entirely concurrent with US 190 Bus., forming a loop off of mainline US 61/US 190 ( Airline Highway) through the downtown area. The business route was first put into effect in 1954 and assumed ...

  8. Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets - Wikipedia

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    Schwegmann Brothers Giant Supermarkets, commonly known as Schwegmann or colloquially Schwegmann's, is a defunct grocery store chain that served the New Orleans, Louisiana, metropolitan area and one location in Baton Rouge until 1997. The chain developed significant innovations in grocery retailing and influenced other big box retailers that ...

  9. Louisville International Airport - Wikipedia

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    Sources: Louisville International Airport, [1] [2] FAA [3] Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport ( IATA: SDF, ICAO: KSDF, FAA LID: SDF ), formerly known as simply Louisville International Airport, is a civil-military airport in Louisville in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The airport covers 1,500 acres (6.1 km 2) [4] and has three runways.