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Owensboro, KY 42301
Owensboro, Kentucky
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Owensboro is a city in Daviess County, Kentucky, in the United States; it stands on U.S. Highway 60 about 30 miles southeast of Evansville, Indiana. It is the principal city of and is included in 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 91,545. Owensboro is the third largest city in Kentucky. It is the county seat of Daviess County6.
Owensboro considers itself the "BBQ Capital of the world"; it holds its BBQ festival and competition every second weekend in May.
Owensboro is home to the International Bluegrass Music Museum, Brescia University, Kentucky Wesleyan College, and Owensboro Community & Technical College.
Owensboro is also home to the annual Hip Hop Halloween Massacre event that happens every year for established Hip Hop Artists and fans, it happens the last Saturday of October.
In 2006, plans were announced for a research center operated by the University of Louisville to be located at Kentucky Bioprocessing to study how to make the first ever human papilloma virus vaccine, called Gardasil, out of tobacco plants. U of L researcher Dr Albert Bennet Jenson and Dr Shin-je Ghim discovered the vaccine in 2006. If successful, the vaccine would be made in Owensboro.
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