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In 1907, a bridge was built across the South Fork of Beargrass Creek which allowed French settlers north of the creek, in an area called Paristown, to attend the one Catholic church in the area. The German-Paristown Neighborhood Association was founded in 1973, making it one of Louisville's first neighborhood associations.
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The area was named after the St. Joseph's Infirmary hospital, which was established by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth. [1] The building, once located at the corner of Preston Street and Eastern Parkway, was razed in 1980. The area was settled by mostly German immigrants from Bavaria in the 1900s.
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 ...
The Louisville Times was a newspaper that was published in Louisville, Kentucky. It was founded in 1884 by Walter N. Haldeman, [ 5 ] as the afternoon counterpart to The Courier-Journal , the dominant morning newspaper in Louisville and the commonwealth of Kentucky for many years.
The formal name given to the area by the Census Bureau is the Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky–Indiana, metropolitan statistical area, though it is regularly referred to as Kentuckiana. It is now the primary MSA of the Louisville/Jefferson County–Elizabethtown, KY-IN Combined Statistical Area , as defined by the United States Bureau of ...