Kenwood Hill is a hill and

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on the south side of

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, United States. Its boundaries are New Cut Road (alongside

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), 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

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. 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

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and

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composed the song "Good Morning to All", which was to become "

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". 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

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on the hill in the 1980s.

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* {{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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