we love louisville
Centrally located, Louisville is within a day’s drive of more than half of the United States’ population. There’s plenty to do as well – museums, a zoo, minor league and semi-professional sports teams and many beautiful parks. A city that is ever-growing in size, business and culture. LOUISVILLE FACTS
George Rogers Clark founded Louisville
1778
Louisville Slugger Baseball Bat
in 1788, naming it after King Louis XVI
Andrew “Bud” Hillerich made the first
of France.
Louisville Slugger baseball bat in his father’s Louisville woodworking shop in
Churchill Downs
1884. The brand name “Louisville Slugger” was first used in 1893.
Since 1875, Churchill Downs has been the home of the Kentucky Derby, the first leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred horse racing.
Frederick Law Olmsted Louisville’s nationally acclaimed parks
6,000 acres
system includes parks and parkways designed by famed architect Frederick Law
Louisville owns the nation’s largest urban
Olmsted, who also designed Central Park
municipal forest – the 6,000 acre Jeffer-
in New York City.
son Memorial Forest in south Louisville.
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Cheeseburger
Muhammad Ali
The cheeseburger originated at Kaelin’s
Muhammad Ali, world-recognized Lou-
Restaurant on Newburg Road. In 1934,
isvillian and Kentucky’s Athlete of the
Margaret Kaelin’s husband asked her
Century, was a three-time heavyweight
to put a slice of American cheese on his
boxing champion.
hamburger and the legend was born.