Owensboro Wedding

Owensboro is a city in Daviess County, Kentucky, in the United States. Owensboro is the third largest city in Kentucky. It is the county seat of Daviess County6 and is named for Colonel Abraham Owen. It is located on U.S. Highway 60 about 30 miles southeast of Evansville, Indiana. It is the principal city of the Owensboro, Kentucky Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 54,067 and a metropolitan population of 109,875.

Owensboro was first settled in the 1790s by frontiersman William "Bill" Smeathers. The settlement was called Yellow Banks, an allusion to the color of the banks of the Ohio River. In 1817, Yellow Banks was incorporated as a city under the name Owensborough, named after Colonel Abraham Owen (who is also the namesake of Owen County, Kentucky). In 1893, the name was shortened to its present spelling of Owensboro.