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.
Chartered in 1848, Cave Hill became a rural cemetery and arboretum shaped by topography, monuments, horticulture, and Louisville's changing memorial culture.
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.
Louisville grew at the Falls of the Ohio through river traffic, trade, slavery and emancipation, immigration, manufacturing, neighborhoods, and cultural institutions.