Kenwood Hill is a hill and

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on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are New Cut Road, Kenwood Drive, Southside Drive and Palatka Road. The hill, earlier known as ''Sunshine Hill'' and then ''Cox's Knob'', was used by Native Americans to spot buffalo. By 1868 Benoni Figg owned the area as a part of his

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business. His family oversaw development on the land until it was sold in 1890 to a development company which named the area Kenwood Hill. Southern Parkway (initially called Grand Boulevard) was opened soon after in 1893. In 1893, Kenwood Hill residents Patty and

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composed the song "Good Morning to All", which was to become " Happy Birthday to You". While wealthy Louisvillians built

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s in the area, and the first subdivision did not begin until 1942, the neighborhood was widely developed by the 1960s, so much so that extensive work was needed to halt erosion on the hill in the 1980s.

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Images of Kenwood Hill (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections
— Article by Linda Lyly of '' The Courier-Journal'' {{Louisville Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky 1890 establishments in Kentucky Populated places established in 1890 Landforms of Louisville, Kentucky Hills of Kentucky

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