The largest city in Kentucky, Louisville, was founded on the Ohio River in 1778 and named in honor of the French King Louis XVI. It is the headquarters of famous companies such as Philip Morris Tobacco, American Tobacco, Kentucky Fried Chicken, United Parcel and the Seagram's. Downtown Kentucky has the largest collection of cast-iron buildings
outside New York. The J.B. Speed Museum has pictures by Rembrandt, Rubens, Picasso and Monet, whilst the Harlan Sanders Museum, dedicated to the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the Louisville Slugger Museum, devoted entirely to baseball, are thoroughly American. River trips on the Ohio can be taken on the venerable old sternwheeler "Belle de Louisville".
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