Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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).
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Bounded by Broadway, Louis Coleman Jr. Drive, Ohio River, the southern boundary of Chickasaw Park and the Paducah and Louisville Railroad 38°14′48″N 85°49′15″W / 38.2468°N 85.8209°W / 38.2468; -85.8209 ( Chickasaw Neighborhood Historic
In 1877, the Louisville, Harrods Creek and Westport Railway reached the area and, owing to the era's Long Depression, never reached beyond it. The line became part of the L&N network in 1881. As with other areas in the Louisville hinterland, improved transportation made Harrods Creek a popular choice for suburban estates by the turn of the ...
Westport is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Oldham County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 268 as of the 2010 census . [ 3 ] Westport has a post office with ZIP code 40077, which opened on November 29, 1815.
Daytop Village, also in New York, stood for “Drug Addicts Yield To Persuasion.” In what eventually became common practice for other communities, addicts who wanted to get into Daytop were required to sit in a “Prospect Chair” and beg for help.