How Louisville's Whiskey Row went from 'left behind' to the tourism jewel of downtown



Twenty years ago, the future of downtown Louisville, Kentucky’s Whiskey Row was hard to see. The block-long stretch of historic buildings dating back to the mid-to-late 1800s was largely empty after a period of stagnancy.

Boarded windows covered vacant buildings once part of a proud bourbon heritage along Main Street ― an area that saw bourbon barrels flow from Kentucky distilleries onto steamboats and railcars to consumers across the globe.

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