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State: Kentucky

Historical haunted places

Historic place

Louisville, KY

Belle of Louisville: Steamboat History and River Lore

Launched in 1914 as Idlewild, the vessel later became Avalon and then Belle of Louisville; it is a National Historic Landmark and an operating river steamboat.
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Historic place

Louisville, KY

Cave Hill Cemetery: Louisville Landscape, Memory, and Folklore

Chartered in 1848, Cave Hill became a rural cemetery and arboretum shaped by topography, monuments, horticulture, and Louisville's changing memorial culture.
Legend
Historic place

Louisville, KY

Conrad-Caldwell House: Old Louisville Architecture and Legends

Completed in 1895, the Arthur Loomis-designed Richardsonian Romanesque house interprets the Conrad and Caldwell families and Louisville's Gilded Age.
Legend
Historic place

Louisville, KY

Louisville Palace: Atmospheric Theater History and Ghost Lore

The theater opened in 1928 as Loew's and United Artists State Theatre, with John Eberson's atmospheric Spanish courtyard design creating an immersive movie palace.
Legend
Historic place

Louisville, KY

Waverly Hills Sanatorium

A former tuberculosis hospital best understood through public-health history before paranormal television fame.
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Haunted towns and cities

Haunted town

Louisville, KY

Haunted Louisville: River History, Cemeteries, and Legends

Louisville grew at the Falls of the Ohio through river traffic, trade, slavery and emancipation, immigration, manufacturing, neighborhoods, and cultural institutions.
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