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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 category includes neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky—both in the city as it existed before its government merged with that of surrounding Jefferson County in 2003, and in what was unincorporated Jefferson County before the merger.
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.
The Highlands neighborhood, centered on Bardstown Road, is Louisville's best known bohemian and night club area. The most affluent residential areas are to the east of downtown Louisville. The nine richest locations by per capita income in Kentucky , and 19 of the top 20 such locations, are found in this East End, which trace their origins to ...
It was linked to Louisville by a streetcar line along 4th street in 1900, and the city was annexed by Louisville in 1922, after a 5-year court battle. Beechmont escaped flooding during the Great Flood of 1937, and was a temporary disaster shelter. The neighborhood expanded slightly as new developments were built after World War II. These ...
Broadway Cinemas 1999–2004 1211 W Broadway Converted from a Winn-Dixie building into 10-screen complex. It was an effort to bring a theater back to the predominantly black West End, after the last of 6 area theaters, Cinema West, closed in 1975. [4] Broadway Cinemas failed due to slow ticket sales and trouble with its creditors.
Louisville [b] is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 28th-most-populous city in the United States. [a] [11] By land area, it is the country's 24th-largest city, although by population density, it is the 265th most dense city.
South Louisville is a neighborhood two miles south of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, US. ("South Louisville" or "South Side" is also used to describe the entire portion of Southern Louisville.) The area was incorporated as a city in 1886. The city of Louisville fought to annex the area and did so, after a three-year lawsuit, in 1898.