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View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846. The history of Louisville, Kentucky spans nearly two-and-a-half centuries since its founding in the late 18th century. The geology of the Ohio River, with but a single series of rapids midway in its length from the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers to its union with the Mississippi, made it inevitable that a town would grow on the site.
This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Louisville, Kentucky.Latitude and longitude coordinates of the 87 sites listed on this page may be displayed in a map or exported in several formats by clicking on one of the links in the adjacent box.
The table below includes sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Jefferson County, Kentucky except those in the following neighborhoods/districts of Louisville: Anchorage, Downtown, The Highlands, Old Louisville, Portland and the West End (including Algonquin, California, Chickasaw, Park Hill, Parkland, Russell and Shawnee).
It is almost New Year's Eve! Here are 16 places where you can dine in or pre-order a New Year's Eve feast to-go in Louisville.
By 1952 the deterioration in Old Louisville was obvious, but St. James and Belgravia retained much of their charm and distinctiveness. To reverse this decline and to market the value of the architecture, neighbors came together to start a fundraiser for St. James, and in 1957 they held the first St. James Court Art Show .
1989 – A mass shooting at Standard Gravure occurs; it was the deadliest of such in Kentucky's history. 1990 Thunder Over Louisville has its first annual event and becomes the first event of the annual Kentucky Derby Festival. Population: 269,063. [3] 1993 – AEGON Center is completed and becomes the tallest building in Kentucky.
(Source: Jefferson Count, Kentucky Will Book 2, page 484.) One original Hikes family home was demolished in August 2013. [citation needed] It was a log cabin built around 1851, previously occupied by John E's Restaurant (and prior to that, Bill Boland's Restaurant) at the corner of Bardstown Road and Hikes Lane. The log walls of the building ...
The Jefferson County Traditional Middle School School at 1418 Morton Ave. in Louisville, Ky. on July 10, 2023. The district's fifth-oldest school just celebrated its 100th birthday, with Jefferson ...