In 1950, General Electric chose Louisville as home for its major appliance division. Louisville could fill the company’s long-range requirements, and the city had excellent transportation available by water, rail and air. The Louisville site was also near the center of distribution between GE distributors and household customers. The location in Buechel, a Louisville suburb, was suitable for the massive plant layout, and the city had a favorable business climate. The first “sign” of the coming Appliance Park was a billboard located on the farmland running parallel to Shepherdsville road.
GE Appliances shipped its first appliance – a dryer – from its Appliance Park campus in Louisville, Kentucky in 1953,…
