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Louisville, KY

Election day, Aug. 6, 1855, known as Bloody Monday due to riots led by "Know-Nothing" mobs.

Louisville, KY

Located west of 32nd and south of Garland Ave., "Little Africa" was original African American section of Parkland.

Louisville, KY

Nunnlea was built by Peter Funk ca.

Louisville, KY

Two miles northeast of here Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the president, was massacred by Indians in May 1786.

Louisville, KY

Much of the early aviation history in Louisville is the result of the Aero Club of Louisville.

Louisville, KY

African American Jockey- On May 11, 1892, at the age of 15, he became the youngest jockey to win the Kentucky Derby.

Louisville, KY

Nicola Marschall designed the Stars and Bars, official flag of Confederacy, and gray uniform of the Southern army, March 1861.

Louisville, KY

Designed for J. B. Wilder by Henry Whitestone, the residence was built in 1874.

Louisville, KY

Site of first known church in greater Louisville area; formed Jan. 1784, by John Whitaker, aided by James Smith.

Louisville, KY

Originally this was site of the old Industrial School of Reform and House of Refuge, established 1860.

Louisville, KY

The Associated Advertising Clubs of America met at Galt House, on this site, for their fifth annual convention, 1909.

Louisville, KY

Kentucky's oldest civil airport was first used in 1919.

Louisville, KY

The east side of Bowman Field airport was expanded in 1940 to become the Bowman Field Air Base.

Louisville, KY

Major Samuel Bray surveyed here in 1779 & returned with his family in 1796.

Louisville, KY

Built in the Italianate style by tobacco merchant Francis S. J. Ronald in 1868, it was named for the Thomas Brennan family, who lived...

Louisville, KY

Serving children and families of the Cabbage Patch, as the neighborhood was known at the time.

Louisville, KY

Calvary's congregation was derived from Sehon Methodist Chapel; it was admitted as an Episcopal parish at Diocesan Convention of 1861.

Louisville, KY

Near this site at Taylor Ave. and Poplar Level Rd. was headquarters of Camp Zachary Taylor.

Louisville, KY

The full-scale assault on racial segregation in Louisville began in Feb. 1961, when local high school students staged non-violent...

Louisville, KY

Parish first gathered in 1805; founded by Father Stephen Badin, the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in U.S. Congregation moved to...

Louisville, KY

Center Street C.M.E. was outgrowth of M.E. Church South.

Louisville, KY

First African American elected to a southern state legislature in 20th century; six consecutive terms in Gen. Assembly, beginning in 1935.

Louisville, KY

Chickasaw Park was designed by Olmsted Brothers, a well-known landscape architecture firm.

Jeffersontown, KY

The first Lutherans in and around Brunerstown, now Jeffersontown, were early settlers from Va.

Louisville, KY

Home of the Kentucky Derby, the oldest continuously held sporting event in America, for 3-year-old thoroughbreds.

Louisville, KY

Organized in 1874 as Louisville Jockey Club by sportsman Col. M. Louis Clark.

Louisville, KY

The city was built on land granted to Col. William Preston in 1773 for service in French and Indian War.

Louisville, KY

Col. Frederick Geiger(1753-1832)- In 1796, Revolutionary War veteran Frederick Geiger came to Jefferson Co. from Md.

Louisville, KY

Col. Richard Taylor(1744-1829)- Early in 1792, Revolutionary War veteran, Richard Taylor, bought 175 acres bounded by Rudy Lane.

Louisville, KY

In 1941, the Louisville Service Club opened in the former Knights of Columbus and Columbia Auditorium building.

Jeffersontown, KY

Constructed in 3 phases, the oldest part of this Federal style house was built by Valentine Conrad in 1803.

Louisville, KY

In 1789, Wm. Croghan married Lucy Clark, sister to generals George Rogers, William, and Jonathan Clark.

Louisville, KY

DIRT BOWL - In 1969, Louisville natives and Algonquin Park supervisors Janis Carter and Ben Watkins created the Dirt Bowl.

Louisville, KY

Born in Woodford County during slavery, James Bond was raised in Knox Co. He led a young steer to Berea College for his tuition.

Louisville, KY

This historic property has served as a blacksmith shop, wagon making shop and general store.

Louisville, KY

The Temple was created in 1976 by uniting Reform congregations Adath Israel and Brith Sholom.

Louisville, KY

Challenged the role of women in the art world as a renowned sculptor.

Louisville, KY

A native of Wales, Williams came to Kentucky around 1780.

Louisville, KY

Incorporated in 1882, the Falls City Jeans & Woolen Mill Company produced the most Kentucky Jeans in Louisville.

Louisville, KY

Historic residence completed 1816 for John and Lucy (Fry) Speed.

Louisville, KY

Herman Gilbert Felhoelter was born in Louisville, July 17, 1913.

Louisville, KY

By 1841, John H. Fenley owned an 1,100 acre farm south of Louisville.

Louisville, KY

Site of J.F. Hillerich carpentry shop, 1875-1901.

Louisville, KY

Founded as the First English Lutheran Church in Louisville in June 1872.

Louisville, KY

This pioneer fort, begun in 1779, one of five on Beargrass Creek, was situated 500 ft. west.

Louisville, KY

Forest Home Cemetery evolved from an old slave burial ground and is final resting place of Eliza Curtis Hundley Tevis (ca.

Louisville, KY

Here was westernmost fort of 11-fort system designed to protect Louisville from the Confederates during Civil War.

Lyndon, KY

Established in 1785 by William Christian and his wife, Anne, a sister of Patrick Henry.

Louisville, KY

This site marks the location of Fort-on-Shore, which was the the first building erected on the mainland when General George Rogers Clark...

Louisville, KY

A world-famed inn operated here from 1835 until it burned in 1865.

Louisville, KY

In 1776, Clark, delegate to Va.

St. Matthews, KY

In 1830, this area was designated Sale’s Precinct for Edmund P. Sales, who operated a tavern on Frankfort Ave. Around 1840, the area...

Middletown, KY

Lawrence Winchester Wetherby (1908-1994)- A native of Middletown, Wetherby graduated from the University of Louisville Law School in...

Louisville, KY

Lawyer, legislator, soldier, and governor, he was born on Jan. 3, 1817, in present Clinton County.

Louisville, KY

Mary M. Miller of Louisville, a pioneer among women, was issued license as master of a steamboat on inland waters, Feb. 16, 1884, in New...

Griffytown, KY

The Louisville and Frankfort Shortline railroad, which arrived in eastern Jefferson County through Hobbs Station (now Anchorage) in 1848,...

Louisville, KY

The Grotto (D.X. Murphy & Bros.

Louisville, KY

James Taylor (1885-1965) was chiefly responsible for the modern Harrods Creek community.

Louisville, KY

This Greek Revival mansion was the home of world-renowned botanist Dr. Charles Wilkins Short from 1847 to 1863.

Louisville, KY

Founded by Mary K. Lee and the mothers of her Highlands students.

Louisville, KY

In 1890, Highland Park was created for railroad workers when L&N expanded in south Louisville.

Louisville, KY

This area was settled by Major William Preston and his wife, Caroline Hancock, who established a plantation known as the “Briar Patch” in...

Louisville, KY

15 acres incorporated in 1854 for Methodist Episcopal Church.

Louisville, KY

Home of Col. Reuben T. Durrett, 1876-1913.

Louisville, KY

Louisville pioneer in civil rights movement, Cole fought against segregation in public parks and on street cars.

Louisville, KY

IMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH Formed in 1887 at Shelby Street Brewery by students at Southern Baptist Seminary.

Louisville, KY

The official amphitheater of Ky.

Anchorage, KY

This log house, which appears as Hite's house on John Filson's map printed in 1784, was on the plantation, Cave Spring, owned by Isaac...

Louisville, KY

This statesman and entrepreneur fostered Louisville's growth from small town in 1810 to nation's 10th largest city in 1850.

Bloomfield, KY

Guthrie-lawyer, statesman, and financier-became a noted leader interested in both the development of resources and politics.

Louisville, KY

One of three original counties formed when Kentucky Co., Virginia, was divided by Va.

Louisville, KY

Designed by Gideon Shryock in the Greek Revival style.

Louisville, KY

Grave of John Floyd, near here.

Louisville, KY

Earl McDonald (1885-1949) helped establish Louisville as the home of jug band music.

Louisville, KY

Thornton and Lucie (also called Ruthy) Blackburn were slaves in Louisville, 1830-31.

Louisville, KY

The Kenwood Drive-In opened July 31, 1949, featuring the movie El Paso.

Louisville, KY

The Knights of Pythias Lodge was organized in 1893 and the state headquarters built, 1915, at a cost of $130,000.

Louisville, KY

Company town of Kentucky’s only Portland cement manufacturer.

Louisville, KY

In 1873, the fourth Kentucky state mental hospital was established here.

Louisville, KY

In 1914, the Louisville Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance prohibiting a person of one race from living on a block where the majority...

Louisville, KY

LEWIS AND CLARK IN KENTUCKY- CHARLES FLOYD (CA.

Louisville, KY

Joseph and Reuben Field were two of the most important members of the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific Ocean.

Louisville, KY

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark celebrated the expeditions' success and Clark's return home with family gathering here.

Louisville, KY

Home of William Clark from 1785 to 1803, who was a leader of Lewis and Clark Expedition to the west 1803-6. Also home to York, his slave...

Louisville, KY

While on the Corps of Discovery's expedition to the Pacific Ocean, coleader William Clark wrote six letters to his brother Jonathan at...

Louisville, KY

Louisville- Louisville & Falls of the Ohio played key role in 1803-06 Lewis & Clark Expedition to the Pacific.

Indian Hills, KY

Home of Gen. George Rogers Clark from 1809 until his death, 1818.

Eastwood, KY

One mile south. Scene of massacre, undoubtedly the bloodiest in early Kentucky, which took place, 1781.

Louisville, KY

Built in 1864, this was the boyhood home of first Jewish U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Louis D. Brandeis.

Louisville, KY

Roots traced to 1871, with meetings of lawyers advocating legal reform.

Louisville, KY

Original 31 acres incorporated Mar. 23, 1886, by prominent black citizens Bishop W. H. Miles, H. C. Weeden, J. Meriwether, A. J. Bibb, W....

Louisville, KY

This building, a merger of the French Second Empire and Italianate style, was erected, 1871-73, from plans of John Andrewartha.

Louisville, KY

The Methodist Episcopal Church was first church to divide over issues which led to Civil War.

Louisville, KY

Built in 1889, this was the first cotton mill in Louisville and a significant example of Victorian industrial architecture.

Louisville, KY

The founding of this Legion dates to 1837, when a company was formed as the "Louisville Guards.

Louisville, KY

Founded in 1869, the college was one of four medical institutions in city which merged with Medical Dept. of University of Louisville, 1908.

Louisville, KY

LOUISVILLE TO PORTLAND TURNPIKE By the late eighteenth century, large boats carried people and products to villages dotting the banks of...

Louisville, KY

Filtration Plant- In the late 1800s, Louisville Water Company pioneered research in the filtration of drinking water.

Louisville, KY

Marker replaced with updated text, June 2022: Louisville Western Branch Library Opened in October 1908, this Carnegie-endowed library...

Louisville, KY

River navigation in 18th century was by flatboat and keelboat.

St. Matthews, KY

In 1780 Hendrick Banta led large group of Dutch pioneers from Pa.

Lyndon, KY

An early settler, Alvin Wood, named this community in 1871.

Louisville, KY

Construction began in 1927 as a tribute to Louisvillians who died in First World War.

Louisville, KY

On Jan. 6, 1891, Harry Merriwether purchased 1.5 acres overlooking Harrods Creek from Allison family.

Louisville, KY

Built in 1853, the Montgomery Street School was an educational institution for 155 years.

Louisville, KY

Born in 1899 in Indianapolis, Walls earned an M.A. from NY's Columbia Univ.

Louisville, KY

Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) - Nannie Helen Burroughs (1879-1961) A suffragist, orator, educator, & club/church leader for gender...

Louisville, KY

Born in Richmond, Va.

Louisville, KY

Commissioned on Oct. 1, 1941.

Louisville, KY

Designed in 1873 by B.J. McElfatrick, architect, as first black public school in Ky.

Louisville, KY

Site of Kentucky's only Catholic high school for blacks.

Louisville, KY

Birth of Optimist International - In June 1919, Optimists from 11 cities met at the Tyler Hotel to organize Optimist International.

Louisville, KY

Congregation organized in 1837-38 by Father Stephen Badin, the first priest ordained in US.

Louisville, KY

Started by Presbyterian families who came from Pennsylvania to Kentucky in the 1780s.

Douglass Hills, KY

Two largest skirmishes of Civil War in Jefferson County occurred here Sept. 27 and 30, 1862.

Louisville, KY

On this site stood the George D. Prentice School, which was one of nineteen in Louisville that were commandeered for use as hospitals...

Louisville, KY

The city's first Catholic school and Louisville's oldest existing school, founded 1831, by Mother Catherine Spalding.

Louisville, KY

This section of Shelby Park neighborhood was laid out ca.

Louisville, KY

Rebecca Rosenthal Judah organized the National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section, and served as their president from 1896 to 1910.

Louisville, KY

In 1899, because black physicians were barred from treating patients at public or church hospitals, Drs.

Louisville, KY

Born in Jefferson Co., Stonestreet was the first woman to be elected superintendent of Jefferson Co. schools.

Louisville, KY

Roscoe Goose House Italianate-style home built circa 1891.

Louisville, KY

First Rotary club in Ky.

Louisville, KY

Erected 1897 by Ky. Div. of League of American Wheelmen to honor cycling pioneer A. D. Ruff (1827-96) of Owingsville, Ky.

Louisville, KY

HEROISM AT LITTLE BIG HORN Co. H, Seventh U.S. Cavalry, was taking heavy losses at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Louisville, KY

In 1836, the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth founded a hospital on Jefferson St. called St. Vincent Infirmary.

Louisville, KY

Samuel M. Plato developed quality single-family housing for Blacks in West Louisville from 1945-1950.

Louisville, KY

Home of Grand Consistory of Ky.

Louisville, KY

SEELBACH-PARRISH HOUSE Built in 1888 for German immigrant and hotelier Louis Seelbach (1852- 1925) and designed by architects Wehle and...

Louisville, KY

In 1847, the German working class first populated the area bounded by Kentucky, Preston, Bergman, & Logan Streets.

Louisville, KY

School proposed by Gen. Assoc.

Louisville, KY

The Kentucky School for the Blind, third such state-supported school in U.S. Dr. Samuel G. Howe, of Boston, a pioneer educator of blind,...

Louisville, KY

She served as the first Episcopal Deaconess in charge of the Home of the Innocents from 1880 until her retirement in 1904.

Louisville, KY

By the 1850s, Kentucky was annually exporting between 2500 and 4000 of its slaves down river to the large plantations farther south.

Louisville, KY

Ky.'s 1792 Constitution continued legalized enslavement of blacks in the new state; 1800 tax lists show 40,000 slaves.

Smoketown, KY

This historically black community began to flourish following end of slavery in 1865, when thousands of African Americans moved to...

Louisville, KY

Society of St. Vincent de Paul - An international lay Roman Catholic organization dedicated to the poor, Bishop John Spalding brought...

St. Matthews, KY

Home of Colonel Richard C. Anderson 1750-1826, American Rev. patriot.

Louisville, KY

Home of Richard Clough Anderson, Revolutionary hero, built before 1785 half-mile south.

Louisville, KY

Southern Parkway- Originally named Grand Boulevard.

Louisville, KY

The rock spring on Beal's Branch 800 feet south marks Spring Fort.

Louisville, KY

On this site in 1848-51, one of the first rural Catholic churches in Jefferson County was built on Cardinal Hill by German and French...

Louisville, KY

Founded in 1836 to serve German Catholics and named for the Apostle of Germany, St. Boniface is the oldest Catholic parish in Louisville...

Louisville, KY

In 1886, Bishop McCloskey purchased Steller’s Woods at Cavewood Ave. (now Clifton) & Payne St. for a new parish.

Louisville, KY

ST. FRANCES OF ROME SCHOOL - Opened Oct. 17, 1887.

Louisville, KY

VISIONS In the 1890s, Wm.

Louisville, KY

German congregation founded, 1843.

Louisville, KY

Parish established in 1866 by Bishop Martin J. Spalding to serve the German and Irish Catholics in Butchertown.

Louisville, KY

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL PARISH Parish included a church, convent, rectory and school.

E of Watterson overpass, KY

Named for Peter A'Sturgus, early Kentucky pioneer, who settled on 2,000-acre tract of land surveyed, 1774, and granted to Col. William...

Louisville, KY

SUSAN LOOK AVERY Suffragist, author, orator and founder of The Woman’s Club of Louisville.

Louisville, KY

In A.D. 1669 Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, commissioned by the French officials of Louis XIV at Quebec, seeking a water route to...

Louisville, KY

Crescent Avenue was the entrance and main promenade of the Fair Grounds where Nat’l Agricultural and Kentucky fairs were held.

Louisville, KY

Founded in 1884 and named for John Filson (1753-88), Kentucky's first historian, this institution collects, preserves, and publishes...

Louisville, KY

THE GOOD SHEPHERD ORDER On this site in 1843, the Sisters of the Good Shepherd opened their first home in the U.S. Here, the Sisters...

Prospect, KY

Located at Harrod’s Creek, this was the only institution in Kentucky founded for Union Civil War veterans.

Jeffersontown, KY

Roscoe Goose, 1891-1971, rode the 1913 Derby Winner Donerail, which paid biggest odds in Derby history.

Jeffersontown, KY

By 1785, Edward Tyler patented some 1,000 acres on Chenoweth Run.

Louisville, KY

U.S. Marine Hospital Built between 1845 and 1852, during the zenith of steamboat and river commerce, the U.S. Marine Hospital in...

Louisville, KY

Virginia Avenue Colored School - The Virginia Avenue Colored School opened in 1923.

Louisville, KY

Louisville Water Co. incorporated in 1854.

Louisville, KY

Trail of thousands of pioneers through here, 1775 to 1811.

Louisville, KY

WISERTOWN Area once known as Wisertown.

Louisville, KY

Settled in the late 1700s and part of Jefferson County’s third major settlement.

Louisville, KY

Opened in 1859 and drew national attention.

Shively, KY

Home of Bennett H. Young (1843-1919).

Louisville, KY

Col. Richard Taylor of Va.

Louisville, KY

Zachary Taylor (November 24, 1784-July 9, 1850), soldier and twelfth president of the United States, lived here between 1785-1808.

Louisville, KY

Gen. Zachary Taylor (1784-1850), distinguished lifetime soldier and twelfth President of United States, buried here in family cemetery.

Louisville, KY

Congregation was organized by 18 blacks in Aug., 1878.