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Bowman Field (IATA: LOU, ICAO: KLOU, FAA LID: LOU) is a public airport five miles (8.0 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The airport covers 426 acres (172 ha) and has two runways .
Kentucky Route 2048 (KY 2048) is a north–south state highway extending 2.7 miles (4.3 km) across eastern Louisville, Kentucky. The southern terminus of the route is at Kentucky Route 155 (Taylorsville Road) adjacent to Bowman Field. The northern terminus is at U.S. Route 60 (Frankfort Avenue). KY 2048 is named Dutchmans Lane from KY 155 to ...
The field remained under Army control until 1947, when it was turned over to the Louisville Air Board for commercial operations. [15] Until around 1947, Bowman Field was Louisville's main airport, which was too close to downtown to expand. For many years, passenger traffic went through the small brick Lee Terminal at Standiford Field.
Poplar Level is a neighborhood five miles (8 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States.It is part of the larger Camp Zachary Taylor area. Named for the poplar wood planks that originally made up Poplar Level Road, the main roadway through the neighborhood as it stretched from Germantown to Petersburg, it is bounded by Eastern Parkway to the north, Poplar Level road to the ...
Following the construction of the U.S. Army base at Bowman Field in 1940, it was found that the area's limestone was causing septic tanks in Seneca Gardens to malfunction and wash raw waste into the creek. Wartime rationing, feuding, and price disputes with Louisville delayed correcting the problem until 1946. [4]
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. As of 2000 ...
The Jefferson Memorial Forest is the largest municipal urban forest in the United States.. The Frederick Law Olmsted Parks [1] (formerly called the Olmsted Park System) in Louisville was the last of five such systems designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. [2]
Southside is a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.Its boundaries are Third Street to the west, Woodlawn Avenue, Allmond Avenue and Hiawatha Avenue to the north, the CSX railroad tracks to the east, and the southern boundary of the Greater Louisville Technology Park (formerly Naval Ordnance), Southside Drive and Kenwood Drive to the south.