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)