Central City (Kentucky)

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Central City is a city in Muhlenberg County in the U.S. state of Kentucky. She had in 2000 in the census 5,893 inhabitants, its surface area is 13.5 km ².

Central City is located on the Green River, was established in 1826 as Morehead 's Horse Mill. 1873 the settlement was incorporated into the municipality Stroud City. After a railway line (Owensboro and Russellville Railroad ) was built, there was a renaming in Owensboro Junction. Since 1882, the city takes its present name.

About three kilometers east of Central City was in the 20th century, the settlement Brownie, a residential town of miners. Here in 1937 Don Everly, one of the Everly Brothers was born. On Labor Day 1988, the brothers gave in her hometown of a homecoming concert. On this occasion, the Chestnut Street was renamed Everly Brothers Boulevard. In the center stands the Everly Brothers monument whose inscription reminiscent of the concert from 1988: " From Brownie to Iowa, to Knoxville, to Nashville, to Hollywood, to England, and around the world have Don and Phil took the music of Kentucky, as taught by their parents, and now they bring it back to Central City. "