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Website. jeffersontownky.com. Jeffersontown is a home rule-class city [3] in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States. The population was 28,474 at the 2020 census. It is a major suburb of Louisville. When the Louisville Metro government was established in 2003, Jeffersontown chose to retain its status as an independent city.
Website. www .jeffersontownky .com /122 /Museum. The Jeffersontown Historical Museum is a neighborhood history museum in Jeffersontown, Kentucky. It details the history of Jeffersontown as it progressed from a small rural community with a town square to the city that it is today. [1]
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).
The third Gaslight Festival in 1972 was used to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Jeffersontown's founding and was a multi-day event held from September 30 to October 2. Attendance continued to grow and by 1977 it was estimated that 150,000 people attended the festival. [ 4 ]
1965. Headquarters. Jeffersontown, Kentucky, U.S. [ 5][ 2] The Jeffersonian was a weekly newspaper published on Thursdays, [ 4] in Jeffersontown, Jefferson County, Kentucky. [ 4] The Jeffersonian was first published on June 13, 1907, and was last published in 1965. [ 2]
Added to NRHP. July 17, 1997. The Confederate Martyrs Monument at the Jeffersontown City Cemetery in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, marks where four Confederate soldiers were executed "without cause or trial". Their execution was under Order 59, created by Union General Stephen G. Burbridge, known as "Butcher Burbridge" in Kentucky, which called for ...
Robert Chester Tway Sr. (October 21, 1881 – May 13, 1964), known as R. C. Tway, was a business, agricultural and political icon in the Louisville, Kentucky area. His activities provided a long-lasting footprint in Kentucky as his farm (named Plainview Farms) evolved into a large subdivision and business center located off Hurstbourne Lane, and his former Kentucky Trailer Company continues to ...
Beechland, in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, was built in 1812. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included three contributing buildings. It is a two-story, three-bay, brick side hall plan house with a Flemish bond front facade, with a two-story original ell and a later one-story ell.