On the site thus chosen by the clear-eyed frontier leader there afterwards grew up a great city, named in honor of the French king, who was then our ally.
Clark may fairly be called its founder.

[Footnote: It was named Louisville in 1780, but was long known only as the Falls.

Many other men had previously recognized the advantages of the place; hunters and surveyors had gone there, but Clark led thither the first permanent settlers.

Conolly had laid out at the Falls a grant of two thousand acres, of which he afterwards surrendered half.

His grant, covering much of the present site of the city, was on July 1, 1780, declared to be forfeited by a jury consisting of Daniel Boon and eleven other good men and true, empanelled by the sheriff of the county.