Become a Member

The Kentuckiana Heritage Consortium members represent sites where history has taken place in the Louisville metropolitan area. The sites are open for public tours that concentrate on the site’s history, provide educational programs for children and/or adults, and facilitate site-based historic preservation.

History On The Move 

Kentuckiana Heritage Consortium’s program for students to learn about the Metro Area’s history.

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Chronological Time Line of Historic Sites
 The Building of a Community

Date of Origination – Current Historic Site

  • 400 million years ago – Falls of the Ohio (Devonian fossil beds)
  • 1778 – Louisville founded – Main Street Association
  • 1791 – Locust Grove (Historic)
  • 1816 – Farmington Historic Home
  • 1837 – Riverside, the Farnsley-Moremen Landing
  • 1850 – (c.) – Thomas Edison House
  • 1852 – Historic home (Beech Grove) that is foundation of the Portland Museum
  • 1852 – US Marine Hospital1855– Nunnlea
  • 1855– (c.) – Whitehall Historic Home
  • 1858 – American Printing House for the Blind
  • 1860 – Jefferson County Courthouse (now Metro Hall)
  • 1860 – Louisville Water Company Water Tower and Pumping Station
  • 1868 – Brennan Historic House (now headquarters for Preservation Louisville, Inc.)
  • 1869 – Culbertson Mansion 1870 – Little Loomhouse
  • 1881 – Life Saving Station #10 (with Belle of Louisville); current vessel constructed in 1929
  • 1891 – Leora Brown School
  • 1894 – Howard Steamboat Museum
  • 1895 – Conrad-Caldwell House Museum
  • 1904 – Carnegie Center for Art and History (Carnegie Library)
  • 1910 – Filson Historical Society (Ferguson Mansion)
  • 1914 – Belle of Louisville (steamboat)