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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)