Editing Shelbyville, Kentucky (section)

===Recent history===
[[File:MainStShelbyvilleKY.jpg|left|thumb|200px|A 1910 illustration of Main Street]]
The agricultural community – principally producing corn, hemp, tobacco, wheat, pork, and beef<ref name=shelcohi /> – experienced a boom after the war. The [[Shelby Railroad Company]] connected the town to [[Anchorage, Kentucky|Anchorage]] in 1870,<ref name=shelcohi>Shelby County Historical Society. "[http://www.shelbykyhistory.org/county-history.html County History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601050742/http://www.shelbykyhistory.org/county-history.html |date=June 1, 2013 }}". 2013. Accessed October 8, 2013.</ref> reaching the mainline of the [[Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad]]. Downtown Shelbyville expanded and gained many large, ornate buildings, especially during the rebuilding following a large fire in 1909. The oldest remaining banks were also organized during this time. The late 19th Century also saw a public water system, electricity, and libraries brought to the town.

Following the [[Spanish–American War]], 116 men from Shelbyville made up Company C of the [[161st Indiana Infantry|161st Regiment of Indiana Volunteer Infantry]], which made up part of the [[Army of Cuban Occupation Medal|occupation force]] in [[United States Protectorate over Cuba|Cuba]]. They were stationed at [[Camp Columbia (Havana)|Camp Columbia]] just outside [[Havana]] from December 17, 1898, until March 29, 1899.<ref>{{cite book |last = Roorda |first = Eric Paul |editor-first = John E. |editor-last = Kleber |year = 2001 |title = The Encyclopedia of Louisville |publisher = [[University Press of Kentucky]] |location = [[Lexington, Kentucky]] |isbn = 0-8131-2100-0 |oclc = 247857447 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pXbYITw4ZesC |chapter = Cubans |chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=pXbYITw4ZesC&pg=PA234 |page = 234 |access-date = February 17, 2016 |archive-date = March 13, 2023 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20230313151808/https://books.google.com/books?id=pXbYITw4ZesC |url-status = live }}</ref>

In 1911, a mob of twenty men stormed the county jail and [[Lynching in the United States|lynched]] three [[African Americans]]. One was convicted of murdering an African American woman and the other two accused of annoying white girls.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 16, 1911 |title=Mob storms jail, hangs three blacks |pages=1 |work=[[Intelligencer Journal]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117307400/mob-storms-jail-hangs-three-blacks/ |access-date=January 26, 2023 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |archive-date=January 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126201204/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117307400/mob-storms-jail-hangs-three-blacks/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Interstate 64]] was built {{convert|2|mi|sp=us}} south of the city in 1960 and helped the area become more industrialized; there are now three industrial parks on the west side of the city. The population increased from 4,525 in 1960 to over 10,000 by the year 2000.