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Owensboro is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Daviess County, Kentucky, United States. It is the fourth-most populous city in the state. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 and Interstate 165 about 107 miles (172 km) southwest of Louisville, and is the principal city of the Owensboro metropolitan area.
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Owensboro, Kentucky is the Bluegrass Music Capital of the World. Owensboro is home to the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum, ROMP fest, Bluegrass Unlimited, My Bluegrass Story and the Kentucky Fiddle Championships.
- Smothers Park. The star of Owensboro’s newly revitalized riverfront is this sensational park, which actually has a history dating back to 1816. Smothers Park came through an extensive upgrade in 2012.
- International Bar-B-Q Festival. For a weekend in mid-May the scent of hickory smoke wafts over the Owensboro riverfront when teams compete for titles including the prestigious Governor’s Cup.
- Green River Distilling Company. Housed in a complex of striking old brick buildings in the west of Owensboro is one of the oldest bourbon distilleries in the world.
- Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum. Owensboro isn’t far from the birthplace of musician and songwriter Bill Monroe (1911-1996), remembered as the Father of Bluegrass.
Location and Transportation. Owensboro is the fourth largest city by population in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It is the county seat of Daviess County. Owensboro is located on U.S. Route 60 about 32 miles (51 km) southeast of Evansville, Indiana, and is the principal city of the Owensboro, Kentucky, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Owensboro, city, seat (1815) of Daviess county, on the Ohio River in western Kentucky, U.S., 32 miles (51 km) southeast of Evansville, Indiana. Founded about 1800, it was known to early flatboat men as Yellow Banks, from the colour of the clay along its high riverbanks.
3 days ago · 2013 All-American City Award. The City of Owensboro was named as one of ten winners of the 2013 All-America City Awards, an honor given each year to towns, cities, counties, neighborhoods and metropolitan regions for outstanding civic achievement.
