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The neighborhood is also host to the annual Highlands Louisville Halloween Parade, Louisville Zombie Attack and Ancient Order of Hibernians St. Patrick's Day Parade. The area is also well known for its numerous dining establishments, giving it the nickname "Restaurant Row". The 2006 Original Highlands Art & Music Festival Poster
Germantown is a neighborhood three miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA.Germantown is also a general term for an area of Louisville from the Original Highlands to St Joseph and Bradley neighborhoods that were predominantly settled by Germans.
Like many older American cities, Louisville has well-defined neighborhoods, many with well over a century of history as a neighborhood. The oldest neighborhoods are the riverside areas of Downtown and Portland (initially a separate settlement), representing the early role of the river as the most important form of commerce and transportation.
This is a list of bogs, wetland mires that accumulate peat from dead plant material, usually sphagnum moss. [1] Bogs are sometimes called quagmires (technically all bogs are quagmires while not all quagmires are necessarily bogs) and the soil which composes them is sometimes referred to as muskeg ; alkaline mires are called fens rather than bogs.
Sphagnum papillosum, the papillose peatmoss, is a species of peat moss distributed throughout the northern hemisphere. [2] Although sometimes confused with Sphagnum imbricatum and Sphagnum palustre , it is distinguished by its yellow-green to brown short, blunt branches and papillose chlorophyllose cells.
Sphagnum fuscum, the rusty bogmoss [1] or rusty peat moss, is a peat moss found commonly in Norway and Sweden, and can be found scattered across North America, the United Kingdom, and in southern to eastern Europe.
A residential street in the Original Highlands. The Highlands was the last area near downtown Louisville to be urbanized, since its steep 60-foot (18 m) incline above the flood plain made travel difficult, and the area showed no signs of urban development until just before the Civil War.
The Cherokee Triangle is a historic neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, known for its large homes displaying an eclectic mix of architectural styles.Its boundaries are Bardstown Road to the southwest, Cherokee Park and Eastern Parkway to the southeast, and Cave Hill Cemetery to the north, and is considered a part of a larger area of Louisville called The Highlands.