LOUISVILLE 



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LOUISVILLE 



OUISVILLE, loo'isvil, KY., the larg- 

 5t city of the state, and the county seat of 

 sfferson County. The population, which in 

 )10 was 223,928, had increased by 1916 to 

 $8,910. The city is on the Ohio River, the 

 orth state boundary line ; and is 130 miles by 

 le river and 110 miles by rail southwest of 

 incinnati. Frankfort, the state capital, is fifty 

 tiles east. 



Louisville is served by the Baltimore & Ohio 

 outhwestern; Chesapeake & Ohio; Chicago, 

 idianapolis & Louisville; Cleveland, Cincin- 

 iti & Saint Louis; Illinois Central; Louisville 

 Nashville; Louisville & Northern; Louisville, 

 Henderson & Saint Louis; Pittsburgh, Cincin- 

 iti, Chicago & Saint Louis, and the Southern 

 tilroads. Electric interurban lines extend to 

 sighboring cities and towns. Steamers from 

 ouisville navigate more than thirty rivers, 

 ibutaries of the Ohio and the Mississippi, and 

 mnect with Memphis, Cairo, Cincinnati and 

 tany other river ports. 



The city has an area of twenty-four square 

 dies. It extends seven miles along the south 

 lore of the river and is about sixty feet above 

 w water, sufficiently high to be free from 

 aod dangers. The falls by which the river 

 sscends twenty-six feet in the course of two 

 iles, creating abundant power for manufac- 

 ire, have given Louisville the name of "Falls 

 ity." 



In order to make provision for navigation 

 ound the falls during low water, a canal two 

 dies in length, built in 1830 and controlled by 

 le Federal government since 1874, extends 

 ong the Louisville side of the river. Enlarge- 

 tents were begun in 1916 to accommodate an 

 icreased river commerce, and when completed 

 ie whole project will represent an expenditure 

 F $9,000,000. Three steel bridges span the 

 ver, two between Louisville and Jeffersonville 

 id one between Louisville and New Albany, 

 vo suburbs in Indiana. A lighthouse is main- 

 lined here by the Federal government and 

 ouisville has the only inland life-saving sta- 

 on in the United States. 



Parks. The parks of Louisville are noted 

 for natural beauty and are so located as to be 

 of greatest benefit to the citizens. Cherokee 

 Park (330 acres) has six miles of macadamized 

 roadway, golf links and tennis courts; Central 

 Park has tennis courts and playgrounds ; Iro- 

 quois Park (670 acres), a woodland of native 

 forest and planted trees, has five miles of 

 macadamized roadway; Shawnee, Fontaine 

 Ferry and Riverview parks are on the banks 

 of the river, and have bathing beaches and 

 water amusements. An eighteen mile boule- 

 vard connects these and other parks and ex- 

 tends to the Kentucky state Fair Grounds (200 

 acres) and to the Government fish hatchery, 

 southwest of the city. The Coliseum, on the 

 fair grounds, cost $110,000 and seats 6,000 peo- 

 ple. Churchill Downs and Douglas Park have 

 well-known courses for the famous Kentucky 

 sport, horse racing. Mammoth Cave, one of 

 the natural wonders of the United States, is 

 eighty-five miles by rail south of Louisville. 



Public Buildings. Prominent buildings of 

 the city are the courthouse, custom house and 

 post office, city hall, the armory (a large con- 

 vention hall seating 16,000 people), Y. M. C. A. 

 and Y. W. C. A. buildings, the building of the 

 Courier- Journal, and many fine hotels, banks 

 and churches. Louisville contains a number of 

 noteworthy monuments, one to the cause of the 

 Confederacy, another to the memory of Zach- 

 ary Taylor; and statues of Thomas Jefferson, 

 Daniel Boone, Henry Clay and George D. 

 Prentice, a former Louisville journalist. Abra- 

 ham Lincoln was born fifty-four miles from 

 Louisville, and a beautiful granite shrine marks 

 the spot of his log-cabin home. Five miles east 

 of the city is the old home and the grave of 

 Zachary Taylor. 



Institutions. Louisville has good educa- 

 tional advantages; its schools for higher educa- 

 tion are the University of Louisville, with aca- 

 demic, medical and law departments; Louis- 

 ville College of Pharmacy; Louisville College 

 of Dentistry; Jefferson School of Law; South- 

 ern Baptist Theological Seminary; Presby- 



