1.  ​The City of Louisville was named 236 years ago after King Louis XVI of France.

Source: www.upf.edu

2. The 12th President of the United States, Zachary Taylor, grew up in Louisville and is buried in the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery on Brownsboro Road.

Source: www.la-cemeteries.com

3. Founded in 1798, The University of Louisville is the oldest city-supported college in the United States.

Source: www.louisville.edu

4. Churchill Downs has been home to the Kentucky Derby since 1875.

Source: www.kentuckyderbybetting.com

5. Just south of Louisville is the 6,000 acre Jefferson Memorial Forest which is the nation’s largest urban forest.

Source: www.wikipedia.org

6. At almost 100 years old, the Belle of Louisville is the oldest operating Mississippi-style sternwheeler steamboat.

Source: www.amsvans.com

7. Kaelin’s Restaurant, formerly located on Newburg Road, created the first cheeseburger in 1934. 

Source: www.whenwasitinvented.org

8. Louisville’s Main Street has the second largest collection of cast-iron facades, outnumbered only by New York City. 

Source: www.wikipedia.org

9. Old Louisville is the largest Victorian neighborhood in America.

Source: www.louisville.edu

10. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park in New York City, laid the groundwork for which Louisville’s nationally-acclaimed parks system is built upon.