Crescent Hill is a neighborhood four miles (6 km) east of downtown
Louisville, Kentucky
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USA. This area was originally called "Beargrass" because it sits on a ridge between two forks of
Beargrass Creek. The boundaries of Crescent Hill are N Ewing Ave to the St. Matthews city limit (roughly Cannons Lane) by Brownsboro Road to Lexington Road. Frankfort Avenue generally bisects the neighborhood.
The Crescent Hill Historic District, roughly bounded by Brownsboro and Lexington Rds., Peterson, Zorn, and Frankfort Aves., and Crabbs Lane, was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1982.
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History
Development first began during the 1850s when the Louisville and Lexington turnpike (now Frankfort Avenue) and the Louisville and Frankfort railroad
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were built through the area. In 1853 a fair grounds were built and were used to host the Agriculture and Technology fair, which had 20,000 visitors on one day in 1857. In 1883 the fair grounds were razed and St Joseph's Orphanage was built in its place.
In the late 19th century The City of Louisville annexed the old town of Crescent Hill. The Crescent Hill Community Council was incorporated in the early 1970s and became very active after the tornado of April 1974. In the early 1980s the CHCC formed the Peterson-Dumesnil House Foundation and purchased the house -at 301 South Peterson - from the Jefferson County Board of Education.
Registered historic sites in Crescent Hill include the Louisville Water Company Crescent Hill Reservoir and the Peterson-Dumesnil House.
Demographics
As of 2000, the population of Crescent Hill was 7,566 , of which 91.4% are white, 4.2% are listed as other, 3.1% are black, and 1.3% are Hispanic. College graduates are 52.3% of the population, people without a high school degree are 8%. Females outnumber males 54.9% to 45.12%.
Education
Crescent Hill has a lending library
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, a branch of the Louisville Free Public Library
The Louisville Free Public Library (LFPL) is the public library system in Louisville, Kentucky, and the largest public library system in the United States, U.S. state of Kentucky.
History Formation
The Louisville Free Public Library was created ...
.Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBTS) is a Baptist theological institute in Louisville, Kentucky. The seminary was founded in 1859 in Greenville, South Carolina, where it was at first housed on the campus of Furman University. The s ...
, a private institution, is located at Crescent Hill.
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External links
Hill (Louisville, Ky.)/field/coveraa/mode/exact/conn/and/order/title/ad/asc/cosuppress/0 Images of Crescent Hill (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections
Crescent Hill Community CouncilStreet map of Crescent Hill
— Article by Martha Elson of ''The Courier-Journal
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''Southern Living'': The South's Best Comeback Neighborhoods - Crescent Hill in Louisville, KY
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Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky
National Register of Historic Places in Louisville, Kentucky
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky
Populated places established in the 1850s
1850s establishments in Kentucky