Iroquois is a neighborhood on the south side of

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, United States. It is split into two parts by Beechmont. From a historical perspective, the northwestern section would be the Bryn Mawr neighborhood and the southeastern section would be the Kenwood neighborhood. The Iroquois neighborhood is roughly bounded by Hazelwood Avenue, Beechmont, Third Street, Kenwood Drive, and

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. Located near the

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, residents have frequently complained of noise and challenged airport expansion. The largely residential neighborhood was developed as a suburb after

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and into the 1950s. The notorious Iroquois Tenement Housing Complex was torn down in 2012 and replaced with the Hope Garden Project, an urban farming collaboration involving KentuckyOne Health, the Food Literacy Project and the Metro Housing Authority. Iroquois has a

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, a branch of the

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. Notable residents include musician

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Street map of Iroquois neighborhoodImages of Iroquois (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital CollectionsPopulation of Iroquois, Louisville, Kentucky
published on StatisticalAtlas.com Demographic information by neighborhood, compiled and aggregated from the 2010 census and from the 2012-2016 American Community Survey Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky 1940s establishments in Kentucky Populated places established in the 1940s {{JeffersonCountyKY-geo-stub

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