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Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th-most-populous city in the U.S. It is the regional economic hub a...
St. James-Belgravia Historic District

In 1883, the Southern Exposition of Art, Industry, and Agriculture opened for a five year run on the 40 acre grounds that extended from Park...
West Main Street

Fort Nelson, built in 1781, was the second on-shore fort in what is now Louisville, in response to continuing attacks from Native Americans ...
Country Estates of River Road

The Country Estates of River Road Historic District consists of 21 large estates designed between 1875 and 1938, stretching in a line along ...
Anchorage

The area was first known as Hite's Mill, and then Hobb's Station, in honor of a president of the Louisville and Lexington Railroad. The town...
New Albany

Located across the Ohio River, below the Falls of the Ohio, in southern Indiana. One of the six original settlements at the Falls of the Ohi...
Middletown

One of Kentucky's early settlements, chartered as a city in 1797 and lying on the Sinking Fork of Beargrass Creek where the main road to Lou...
Mockingbird Valley

The historic, rural, and wealthy, enclave in the suburban east end is highlighted by landscape preservation and protection of the dramatic t...
Drumanard Estate Historic District

In the approach path from I-265 to the east end bridge this 47-acre wooded estate is federally designated and protected under the U.S. Depar...

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