Germantown, Louisville

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Coordinates: 38°13′28″N 85°44′12″W / 38.22450°N 85.73660°W / 38.22450; -85.73660

Barrett Avenue in Germantown

Germantown is a neighborhood three miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Germantown is also a general term for an area of Louisville from the Original Highlands to St Joseph and Bradley neighborhoods that were predominantly settled by Germans. The actual neighborhood is bounded by Barrett Ave, Eastern Parkway, and the South Fork of Beargrass Creek.

The area was settled as small farms and butcher shops by German immigrants in the 1870s. At this time area was nicknamed 'Frogtown' because the adjacent Beargrass Creek frequently flooded the area, causing numerous epidemics of malaria. The flooding problem was solved when Beargrass Creek was routed into a much deeper concrete canal. The area was subdivided and developed heavily during the 1890s, when the largest collection of shotgun houses in the city of Louisville was built.

Lynn's Paradise Cafe in Germantown, now closed

In 1907, a bridge was built across the South Fork of Beargrass Creek which allowed French settlers north of the creek, in an area called Paristown, to attend the one Catholic church in the area.

The German-Paristown Neighborhood Association was founded in 1973, making it one of Louisville's very first neighborhood associations.

Today the area is undergoing a transition to a younger, more educated demographic. Many homes in the neighborhood are being renovated and urban homesteading (complete with gardens, bee hives, and backyard chickens) is not at all uncommon.

Demographics

As of 2000, the population of Germantown was 3,867 , of which 93.9% are white, 4.2% are black, 1.6% are listed as other, and 0.7% are Hispanic. College graduates are of the 17.9% population, people without a high school degree are 29.3%. Females outnumber males 52.9% to 47.1%.

References

^ "Community Resource Network". Retrieved 2005-11-18.

External links

Images of Germantown (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections

Places in Louisville Metro

Paristown Pointe

Germantown

Schnitzelburg

v t e Neighborhoods, Suburbs and Census Designated Places in Louisville Metro

East Side (Old City)	Audubon Avondale-Melbourne Heights Bashford Manor Belknap Bon Air Bonnycastle Bradley Brownsboro-Zorn Butchertown Camp Taylor Cherokee Gardens Cherokee Triangle Cherokee-Seneca Clifton Clifton Heights Crescent Hill Deer Park Germantown Hawthorne Hayfield Dundee Highlands Original Highlands Highlands-Douglass Hikes Point Irish Hill Klondike Meriwether Phoenix Hill Poplar Level Prestonia Rockcreek-Lexington Road St. Joseph Schnitzelburg Tyler Park

East Side (Suburbs, CDPs and Rural Hamlets)	Anchorage Ashville-Glenmary Audubon Park Avoca Bancroft Barbourmeade Beckley Station Beechwood Village Bellemeade Bellewood Berrytown Blue Ridge Manor Boston Buechel Briarwood Broad Fields Broeck Pointe Brownsboro Farm Brownsboro Village Cambridge Cherrywood Village Clark Station Coldstream Creekside Crossgate Douglass Hills Druid Hills Eastwood English Station Fairmeade Fairmount Fern Creek Fincastle Fisherville Forest Hills Freys Hill Gardiner Lane Glenview Glenview Hills Glenview Manor Goose Creek Griffytown Graymoor-Devondale Green Spring Harrods Creek Hickory Hill Highview Hills and Dales Houston Acres Hurstbourne Acres Hurstbourne Indian Hills Jeffersontown Kingsley Langdon Place Lake Louisvilla Lakeland Lincolnshire Long Run Longview Lyndon Lynnview Manor Creek Maryhill Estates Meadow Vale Meadowview Estates Meadowbrook Farm Middletown Mockingbird Valley Moorland Murray Hill Newburg Norbourne Estates Northfield Norwood O'Bannon Old Brownsboro Place Parkway Village Plantation Plainview The Point Plymouth Village Poplar Hills Prospect Richlawn Riverwood Rolling Fields Rolling Hills St. Matthews St. Regis Park Seatonville Seneca Gardens Smyrna Springdale Springhurst Spring Mill Spring Valley Springlee Strathmoor Manor Strathmoor Village Sycamore Ten Broeck Thixton Thornhill Tucker Station Watterson Park Wellington West Buechel Westwood Whipps Millgate Whitner Wildwood Windy Hills Woodland Hills Woodlawn Park Worthington Worthington Hills

South Side (Old City)	Auburndale Beechmont Cloverleaf Edgewood Hazelwood Highland Park Iroquois Jacobs Kenwood Hill Limerick Parkwood South Louisville Southland Park Southside Standiford Taylor-Berry Wilder Park Wyandotte

South Side (Suburbs, CDPs and Rural Hamlets)	Bethany Fairdale Greenwood Heritage Creek Hollyvilla Hollow Creek Johnsontown Kosmosdale Lake Dreamland Lynnview Medora Okolona Orell Penile Pleasure Ridge Park Prairie Village Riverside Gardens St. Dennis Shively Sylvania Valley Downs Valley Gardens Valley Station Valley Village Waverly Hills

West Side	Algonquin California Chickasaw Hallmark Park DuValle Park Hill Parkland Shawnee Rubbertown Russell

Downtown	Downtown Old Louisville Portland Shelby Park Smoketown

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Prominent suburbs (over 10K pop.)	Bardstown Clarksville Jeffersontown Jeffersonville Lyndon New Albany St. Matthews Shelbyville Shepherdsville Shively

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