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Louisville, Ohio is pronounced "LOO-iss-vil" — not like Louisville, Kentucky — a distinction locals are quick to point out.

The city was formally settled on October 8, 1834 by Henry Lautzenheiser, an immigrant from Germany, and Frederick Fainot, a French Huguenot, and was first called Lewisville after Lautzenheiser's son Lewis.

When the post office was established in 1837, Ohio was found to already have a Lewisville, so the spelling was changed to Louisville, with Sam Petree as the first postmaster.

Louisville was incorporated as a village on April 1, 1872, with George Violand as its first mayor, and residents voted to make it a city in 1960.

Louisville is known as "The Constitution Town" because resident Olga T. Weber petitioned in 1952 for official recognition of Constitution Day; her campaign led Ohio to proclaim September 17 as Constitution Day, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower later signed Constitution Week into federal law.

Louisville's city council formally declared it "The Constitution Town" on April 15, 1957, and the city still celebrates an annual Constitution Week around September 17.

The town's first public street lights — twelve oil burners — were lit downtown for Christmas in 1884.

Louisville outgrew its rival village of Harrisburg after the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway was laid through Louisville in 1852; Harrisburg survives today only as a tiny unincorporated community.

Louisville had a population of 9,521 at the 2020 census, living in 4,040 households.

The city covers about 5.5 square miles in Stark County, roughly 7 miles northeast of Canton in the Canton-Massillon metropolitan area.