Posted November 20, 200618 yr 1898, the near east end of Louisville, showing Butchertown, The Point, and some other nearby neighborhoods. Note the Big Four Bridge crossing the Ohio.... Flood-prone Butchertown and The Point, during the 1937 flood. The open water at the bottom of the pix is the course of Beargrass Creek and the Stockyards. Also note the Big Four Bridge crossing the Ohio..The Point is totally under water (from Views of Louisville...) Washed away by the flood, The Point, along with Shippingport on the West End, is not rebuilt. Modern day flooding on The Point: (From this site on the 1997 Flood) Looking down into the Point from Butchertown Butchertown sits on a sort of ridge between branches of Beargrass Creek, one that is filled in now, more or less. Its also protected by a floodwall, though there are parts on the wrong side of the floodwall. Butchertown from the old creek bottoms. Butchertown from around St Josephs. Parish dates from the 1860s, this church was built in 1883. The Ohio connection is that the main and side altars where carved at the Josephinum orphanage in Columbus. The tallest steeples in Louisville, one is supposed to be higher than another, or that just may be an urban legend... 1840 house with later trim. This neighborhood has some of the oldest housing in Louisville. Also some early shotgun houses. Firehouse, later antique shop This camelback shotgun house is for sale for $138,000 Camelbacks and St Joes Floodwall down the middle of Quincy Street River side of the floodwall, streets fuzz out into low grade industrial scruff and just plain brush (I -71 and 64 aslo cut through behind the brush) City side of the floodwall. House is probably antebellum Cobblestone alley. Personal anecdote: I first heard of this neighborhood in the early 1970s when one of the preservationsist here either saved or uncovered an old stone or brick alley. I wonder if this was it. Anyway, the paper did a sunday feature about this, and on the preservation activities in Butchertown. That will be on a later thread...(I dont feel like posting that tonight) The high iron of the Big Four. 50 to 60 people where killed building it (or the first version, it was rebuilt in 1928-29) The last remaining houses, or parts of houses on The Point Patriotic German stonemason built the Heigold House in reaction to the Know-Nothing Riots of the 1850s....bust is of James Buchanen Paget House, built by a New Orleans family who used to spend the summer in Lousiville (this house is just above the first bottom on the riverbank)...apparently there was a small community of New Orleans merchants who used to summer at The Point during the antebellum era. More on Butchertown later (maps, pix, history, diagrams, some arty stuff).
November 20, 200618 yr The brick shotguns remind me of those in Linden area in Dayton. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
November 20, 200618 yr Excellent! I believe I drove through this area briefly after taking pictures around the ballpark.
December 13, 200618 yr What a terrible waste of a nice industrial bridge I know you know enough about Louisville than to make comments like that, so why make them?
December 13, 200618 yr I really enjoyed your your spread of pictures Jeff. I hope you do another expose in Louisville soon. BTW, that bridge is being converted into a pedestrian bridge between Louisville and Indiana. The lastest story about it was just last week. It will be complete in Spring/Summer 2008.
January 21, 201015 yr The expanded "part II" of this Butchertown look was posted on another forum: In Depth Look @ Louisville's Butchertown I'd love to go visit for a couple days. ...the thing to know is that closing is at 4PM so it's a late town. Things get hopping after 10 PM
January 22, 201015 yr What a terrible waste of a nice industrial bridge :| What do you want them to do with it???
March 1, 201015 yr What a terrible waste of a nice industrial bridge :| What do you want them to do with it??? 4 years ago when the post you are responding to was posted, that bridge was being converted to a pedestrian bridge. I assume that has been completed by now, the ETA of completion was 2008.
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