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Formation. The Louisville Free Public Library was created in 1902 by an act of the Kentucky State Legislature, and in 1904 it merged with the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky. Services began in 1905 when the Polytechnic Society's collection, held in the top floor of the Kaufman-Straus Building, was open to the public. [ 2 ]
Portland is a historic district. neighborhood and former independent town northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky.It is situated along a bend of the Ohio River just below the Falls of the Ohio, where the river curves to the north and then to the south, thus placing Portland at the northern tip of urban Louisville.
At that time a part of Kentucky County, Virginia, the town was chartered in 1780 and named Louisville in honor of King Louis XVI of France . In 2003, the city of Louisville merged with Jefferson County to become Louisville-Jefferson Metro. As of the 2010 census, it is the largest city in the state of Kentucky, the largest on the Ohio River, and ...
The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a former sanatorium located in the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky . In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis – known as the "White Plague" – which prompted the construction of a new hospital. The Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a two-story facility able ...
Louisville Free Public Library, Western Branch. / 38.24972°N 85.76750°W / 38.24972; -85.76750. The Louisville Free Public Library's Western Branch or Western Library is a public library in Louisville, Kentucky. It is a Carnegie library and is the first public library built for African Americans staffed entirely by African Americans.
Robley Rex VA Medical Center is a hospital located in Louisville, Kentucky, and administered by the Veterans Health Administration, an agency of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. The center is dedicated to the care of veterans of the United States military living in a 32-county service area in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. [1]
Portland Vicinity: 041 ME* Portland Main: 042 ME Auburn: ... 400 KY Louisville East: 401 KY Louisville West: 402 KY ... All three ZIP codes under the 994 range are ...
Bloom Elementary. The Bloom Elementary School at 1627 Lucia Ave. in Louisville, Ky. on July 10, 2023. The district's second-oldest school is in Louisville's Tyler Park neighborhood along Lucia ...