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Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest is a 14,000 acre (57 km²)
arboretum, forest, and nature preserve located in
Clermont, Kentucky (south of
Louisville, Kentucky,
United States). It was founded in 1929 by
Isaac Wolfe Bernheim, a German immigrant and successful brewer whose whiskey distillery business established the I.W. Harper brand. He purchased the land in 1928 at $1 an acre because most of it had been stripped for mining iron ore.
The property includes a 240-acre (0.97 km²) arboretum containing over 1,900 labeled species and cultivars of trees, shrubs, and other plants. The arboretum includes over 185 cultivars of American holly species. Other major collections include maples, crab apples, conifers (including dwarf conifers), oaks, buckeyes, ginkgoes, ornamental pears, and dogwoods. Specific attractions within the arboretum include the sun and shade trail, quiet garden, and garden pavilion.
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Farmington is an 18-acre historic site in
Louisville, Kentucky, was once the center of a
hemp plantation owned by John and Lucy Speed. The 14-room,
Federal-style brick home possibly based on a design by
Thomas Jefferson and has several Jeffersonian architectural features.
The Farmington site was part of a military land grant given to Captain James Speed in 1780. His son, John Speed, completed Farmington on a tract of land in 1816. Built in the Federal architectural style, the house is based on plans by Thomas Jefferson, which are now in the Coolidge Library of Massachusetts Historical Society.
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The
Frazier International History Museum, formerly the
Frazier Historical Arms Museum, is an international history museum located in
Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the
West Main District of
downtown.
The Frazier is also home to The Royal Armouries USA – a component of Britain's Royal Armouries (Britain's oldest museum). The Frazier is the only national museum outside of Great Britain to house a collection representing British artifacts from the 11th to the 20th centuries. The Royal Armouries galleries span the entire 3rd floor of The Frazier, and provides an in-depth look at Britain and European history, as well as captures the art and artistry of early arms making.
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Cherokee Park is a 409-
acre (1.6 km²) municipal
park located in
Louisville, Kentucky,
United States. It was designed, like 18 of Louisville's 123 public parks, by
Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of
landscape architecture.
Beargrass Creek runs through much of the park, and is crossed by numerous pedestrian and automobile bridges.
Much of the land comprising Cherokee Park was originally part of a 4,000 acre military land grant in 1773 to James Southall and Richard Charlton. Eventually a portion of it passed to Judge Joshua Fry Bullitt, who sold it in 1868 to foundry magnate Archibald P. Cochran. Cochran established an estate there called Fern Cliff, which operated as a museum for a while but has since been demolished.
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The Filson Historical Society (originally named the
Filson Club) is a historical society in
Louisville, Kentucky. The organization was founded in 1884 and named after early Kentucky explorer
John Filson, who wrote
The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke, which included one of the first maps of the state. The Filson's extensive collections focus on Kentucky, the Upper South, and the Ohio River Valley. Its research facilities include a manuscript collection as well as a library that includes rare books, periodicals, maps, and other published materials. The Filson also maintains a small museum. One intriguing possession of the museum is a section of
American beech tree trunk, with the carved legend "D. Boon kilt a bar 1803."
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Fourth Street Live! is an
entertainment and
retail district located on 4th Street, between Liberty and Muhammad Ali Boulevard, in
downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is owned and was developed by the
Cordish Company; it was designed by Louisville architects, Bravura Corporation.
The Louisville Convention & Visitors Bureau opened its new Visitor Information Center at the North entrance to Fourth Street Live. The new center totals nearly 3,000 square feet, and includes two permanent exhibits, where visitors can learn about the stories of two of Kentucky's most famous icons: Kentucky Bourbon and Colonel Harland Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. The center will also supply information to outside passersby via a high-tech video wall that will run video on different cultural events and attractions.
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Belle of Louisville is a
steamboat owned and operated by the city of
Louisville, Kentucky and moored at its
downtown wharf next to the
Riverfront Plaza/Belvedere during its annual operational period. Originally named the
Idlewild, she was built by James Rees & Sons Company in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania for the West Memphis Packet Company in 1914 and was first put into service on the
Allegheny River. Constructed with an all-steel superstructure and asphalt main deck, the steamboat is said to hold the all-time record in her class for miles traveled, years in operation, and number of places visited.
The Belle's offices are located within the Mayor Andrew Broaddus, also a National Historic Landmark.
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Papa John's Cardinal Stadium is a
football stadium located in
Louisville, Kentucky,
USA and serves as the home of the
University of Louisville football program. It opened in 1998, making it the next-to-last football stadium in
NCAA Division I-A (now Division I FBS) to open in the
20th century, with
SMU's
Gerald J. Ford Stadium being the last. The official
seating capacity in the horseshoe-shaped facility is 42,000.
A unique aspect of the facility is that there are no bleachers — every seat is a chairback seat. This particular feature is fairly common in European soccer stadiums and the NFL, but is very rare in college football.
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The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, located in
Louisville, is the premier
performing arts center in
Kentucky. Home to many of the state's major arts organizations, The Kentucky Center brings the finest in music, dance, theater and more to Kentucky! The Center is the home for Louisville’s nationally-renowned arts scene, to The Louisville Orchestra, Kentucky Opera, Louisville Ballet, Stage One and PNC Bank Broadway Across America – Louisville, as well as a host of community theaters and its own Kentucky Center Presents performances.
The three theaters of the Center, along with its sister facility the elegant W. L. Lyons Brown Theatre, are Kentucky’s showcases for the performing arts. From Broadway to ballet, from blues to bluegrass, from Big Bands to Beethoven, the Center's stages overflow with magnificent entertainment almost every night of the year.
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The
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, located in
Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the
West Main District of
downtown, is a nonprofit organization founded in 1981 to continue the art and craft heritage of
Kentucky through the support and education of craft artists and education of the public. The museum is supported in part by the Fund for the Arts and Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency of the Commerce Cabinet.
The organization has seen artists progress from novices to masters and Main Street transform from an almost a deserted noncommercial street to the thriving business and cultural district it is today.
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The
Little Loomhouse is a place on the
National Register of Historic Places in the
Kenwood Hill neighborhood on the south side of
Louisville, Kentucky. It is comprised of three
log cabins from the 1800s
Victorian Era: Esta Cabin, Tophouse, and Wistaria Cabin. It not only displays weavings, but demonstrates how they are made as well. It is the biggest repository of original and classic textile patterns in the United States.
The Esta Cabin encapsulates the history of the Loomhouse, and is the cabin where the song Happy Birthday to You was first sung. The Tophouse was built as a summer home for the well-to-do Sam Stone Bush in 1896. Wistaria holds the office and giftshop.
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My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a
state park in
Kentucky. It is located in
Bardstown. The state park consists of
Federal Hill, a former plantation owned by the Rowan family. A visit to the site in 1852 is said to have inspired
Stephen Foster to write his famous song,
My Old Kentucky Home. On June 1st, 1992, a 29-cent stamp was issued honoring the park.
The park features an amphitheater that is home to the long-running outdoor musical, Stephen Foster — The Musical, which was usually staged each night except Monday during the summer. It is the longest running outdoor drama in the state of Kentucky, having started in 1959.
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Louisville Stoneware, previously known as
Louisville Pottery, is located in the Highlands section of
Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 1815, making it one of the oldest stoneware companies in the
United States, it creates fanciful
stoneware that is nationally renowned. It specializes in decorating its pottery with
Kentucky Derby and
Christmas themes, but it has other themes as well:
Noah's Ark,
Primrose, and
Pear being examples. They can also do personalized items. Besides pottery, they have made bird baths and bird feeders.
Factory tours are available weekdays by appointment, with group discounts available. It is anticipated that, eventually, tours could make the factory as big a center for Louisville tourism as the Louisville Slugger Museum.
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Caesars Indiana, formerly the
RDI/Caesars Riverboat Casino, LLC, is a
riverboat casino operated by
Harrah's Entertainment. Opened in 1998, it is located outside the community of
Elizabeth, Indiana, across the
Ohio River from
Louisville, Kentucky. The complex is located at the
Harrison County line. This is the closest location to Louisville and other cities as is legally possible as casino gambling is not legal in neighboring
Floyd County.
The complex includes the four-deck Glory of Rome riverboat, which houses the gaming area; it is the largest riverboat in the United States, and the largest riverboat casino in the world. Other amenities include a hotel, a pavilion with four restaurants and a showroom, two parking decks, and a golf course.
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Clark State Forest, located just north of
Henryville, Indiana, is Indiana's oldest
state forest, formed in 1903 as a forest research facility and a
nursery. It is bisected by
Interstate 65.
From the original two thousand acres, Clark State Forest now covers twenty-four thousand acres, with many curvy roads and paths. This includes a hundred miles of horsepaths, which was a major cause for the future plans for Charlestown State Park to not include horse trails. Hunting is also allowed on the property, save for those areas specifically for human recreation. All the campsites are primitive, and the only other areas allowed for camping in the state forest is hundred feet off the Knobstone Trail. Hiking, biking, fishing, and picnicking are other pursuits to visitors to the state forest. However, all of these human activities are of secondary importance to the main purpose of the state forest.
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