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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.
The neighborhood's name apparently comes from the large number of (smoke-producing) kilns in the area during its early brick-making days. An 1823 newspaper advertises a brickyard in the area as part of the farm and residence of "the late Mark Lampton", after whom Lampton Street is probably named. 9 of 20 brickyards in the city had Smoketown addresses according to an 1871 Caron's directory, [2 ...
Due to its large collection of night clubs and restaurants, it is locally known as "Restaurant Row". [1] The grid of streets east and west of Bardstown Road are mostly single-family residences and range from working-class neighborhoods to some of the most expensive streets in Louisville, such as Spring Drive.
Street map of Shawnee; Up to 115 Shawnee homes being renovated over five years—Louisville.gov October 30, 2013; US Department of Housing and Urban Development approves Shawnee Neighborhood Revitalization Plan—Louisville.gov September 29, 2013; Images of Shawnee (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections
But as many of the railroad jobs left the area, the Irish began to move to South Louisville. On October 7, 1871, the Louisville Steam Engine Co. 7 was formed to provide fire protection to the "southern suburbs" of Louisville. Its firehouse at 821 S. 6th Street is the oldest continuously active firehouse in the U.S.
Butchertown is a neighborhood just east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States, bounded by I-65, Main Street, I-71, Beargrass Creek and Mellwood Avenue.. The Butchertown Historic District is a 50 acres (20 ha) part which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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This is a list of properties and historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the Portland neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky (roughly bounded by the Ohio River on the north; N. 10th St. to the east; W. Market St. to the south; and I-264 and the Shawnee Golf Course to the west. Latitude and longitude coordinates of the 35 ...