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General Information History The height of sophistication, telephone service, In 1878 Louis Nawatny, a Polish immigrant, came to Louisville in 1903. Three years later, bought forty acres of homestead land for 119 Louisville residents had telephones. ninety dollars, under a grant signed by President Rutherford B. Hayes. He platted the Life in the early days of Louisville was not land, named the area Louisville after himself, always characteristic of quiet, small town and proceeded to sell lots to incoming coal living. A violent mine strike and one mine miners. The new town of Louisville grew to a explosion added a tragic sequel to the town's population of two hundred by 1879. history. During the Long Strike (so-called because it lasted from 1910 to 1915) the Hecla mine, on the northeast edge of Louisville was the scene of a miniature battle, resulting in several injuries and one death. Due to violent conditions erupting at various mines, 128 state militia arrived in Louisville to keep the peace. They were replaced by the Twelfth United States Cavalry and were well accepted by the battle-weary residents. At the end of 1914 President Wilson called for federal mediation Those who had bought Louisville lots from and the union movement was thwarted. This Nawatny built modest homes as soon as they would weaken the force of the miners' had saved enough from their wages at the demands to the coal operators. Welch-Louisville coal mine. Small kitchen gardens began to green the area; their produce kept mining families going during the summer months, slack time at the mines. Incorporation for Louisville was a slow process because some of the residents feared it, but the first mayor was elected in 1882. In the early morning hours of January 20, 1936 ten miners were completing the graveyard shift at the Monarch mine when an explosion occurred. Eight miners lost their lives. It was later determined that the coal dust which lay five and six inches thick on the mine floor, had combined with a pocket of methane gas and was touched off by a spark, perhaps from a trolley. The operators were found negligent. Louisville greeted the twentieth century with more streetlights, the telephone, ice cream Resources from: "Once a Coal Miner..." by Phyllis Smith cones, and soda pop. The forty-four Photos courtesy of Louisville Historical Museum and Louisville Public streetlights in Louisville gave the town a settled Library look despite its dusty, unpaved roads. 1