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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
THE LOUISVILLE PARK SYSTEM. 
The three principal parks of Louisville, Ky. , 
arenanied Iroquois, Cherokee and Shawnee — a hap- 
pily selected nomenclature that is poetic, suggestive 
and appropriate, for that “enchanted wilderness,” 
Kentucky, was the chosen hunting ground of the 
SHELTER HOUSE, CHEROKEE PARK. 
red men, and so beautiful that it may well have 
typified to their poetic but untutored minds the 
‘‘happy hunting grounds” of the Indians hereafter. 
Not only are the names well selected, but they 
are fittingly applied, for the 306 acres of lovely 
hill, dale and sylvan shade, christened Cherokee, 
fairly represent the leading characteristics of the 
beautiful country on the upper Tennessee river and 
its branches that the agriculturally inclined Chero- 
kees chose for their own; while the bold, wooded 
knob — the outpost of those that here skirt the south- 
ern side ot the valley of the Ohio — that dominates 
the 550 acres known as Iroquois aptly stands for 
the “warlike and powerful” tribe which more than 
two hundred years ago made life a burden to the 
peaceful Fhawnees, whose ‘‘numerous villages ten- 
anted the shores of the Ohio, then and long after- 
ward known as the Wabash.” And thus the name 
Shawnee is equally fitting for the remaining park of 
167 acres lying directly on the south bank of that 
stream, views of the river and of the Indiana knobs 
across it constituting its chief attractions. 
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The Louisville park system is a part of the out- 
come of the spirit of park making that has obtained 
in the United States since the Centennial year, or 
about that time, and is on a scale commensurate 
with the most advanced thought regarding the neces- 
sity for ample reservations for public breathing 
spaces, and for securing them before the value of 
appropriate and accessible land advances beyond 
reasonable limits. 
The parks are on three sides of the city, the 
river furnishing open space to the north. Iroquois, 
five and a half miles south of the Court House, 
has the well made southern parkway as an approach 
for the last two and .three-quarter miles which, being 
a part of the system, increases its area to 601 acres. 
Cherokee is two and three-quarter miles east, and 
Shawnee three and one-half miles west of the Court 
House. Eventually, no doubt, the three will be 
linked together by driveways. 
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The Park Board is handicapped by lack of funds, 
the large appropriation made by the city some 
years ago being by some technicality unavailable 
without further legislation. But the parks are being 
gradually developed according to plans by Messrs. 
Clmffed, Olmsted and Eliot who, after their well- 
BEECH WOODS, IROQUOIS PARK. 
known artistic designing, are preserving and empha- 
sizing the natural features of each, while skilfully 
adapting the grafted improvements to the peculiar 
opportunities offered by each. The leading idea in 
the development of Iroquois is the preservation of 
the splendid woods, and of fully developing the 
