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We would like to provide the residents of  Louisburg  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Louisburg Home page. The Louisburg Home page provides as much information as possible on Louisburg. Knowing Louisburg’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Louisburg’s Home page, you will also find Louisburg’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Louisburg has a population of 4499. 50.2% of Louisburg’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.8 are female. 61.5% of Louisburg is married and 70.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $184,856, and the average rent is $1,186. Household median income in Louisburg is $77,182, and the individual median income is $36,382. Louisburg’s Ethnic is the following: White(95%), Hispanic(5.6%), Multiple(1.5%), Other(1.3%), Black(1%), Asian(0.6%), Native(0.6%).


In the early 1900s, Louisburg's downtown had a variety of businesses such as retail stores, supply stores, livery stables, a hotel, and large nurseries. By 1910 the population was 603, and Louisburg was known as a good supply town for agricultural districts. By the 1920s, the town also had a gas station, an automobile ownership and traffic through town had increased.


By the late 1950s the MKT Railroad ended its service to Louisburg, but because K-68 went through town and US Highway 69 and K-68 intersected near town, growth continued.In October 1912, an unsolved murder in the community took place as the town's postmaster at the time, George McElheny, was shot twice by a 12-gauge shotgun at his home.


Several people were accused of the murder, including his wife, after she admitted an affair with one of the accused, but after intense trials and no hard evidence the case was dropped, and no one ever admitted to the murder. In later years, the murder was almost forgotten until Joe Towne, one of the community leaders, grew interested in the subject and studied it and interviewed those who remembered the tragic situation and wrote true crime novel, "Tongues on Fire".


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