Smoketown Historic District

Roughly bounded by Preston, Caldwell, and Jacob Sts., and alley E of Shelby St., Louisville, Kentucky. County/parish: Jefferson.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 03, 1997. NRIS 97000661.

From Wikipedia:

Smoketown, Louisville

Smoketown is a neighborhood one mile (1.6 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. A historically black neighborhood since the Civil War, it is the only neighborhood in the city that has had such a continuous presence. Smoketown is bounded by Broadway, CSX railroad tracks, Kentucky Street, and I-65.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/123850771

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