Hazelwood is a neighborhood on the south side of

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, United States. Its boundaries are Manslick Road to the west,

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to the north, Taylor Boulevard to the east, and Hazelwood Avenue to the south. Its development, as with other nearby neighborhoods, was spurred by the opening of

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in the early 1890s. E.E. Meacham first subdivided the land in 1899. A larger subdivision, called Bergmann's Addition, was financed in 1902. The Hazelwood Center, opened in 1907, is a former tuberculous center and since 1971 a hospital for the mentally handicapped located in the neighborhood.

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Images of Hazelwood (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections
Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky 1899 establishments in Kentucky Populated places established in 1899 {{JeffersonCountyKY-geo-stub