History of the Parkland Neighborhood

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Parkland Carnegie Library, located at 2743 Virginia Avenue, was built in 1899 and closed as a library in the 1980s. It now houses the Metro Police Department’s internal investigations office.

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Parkland Carnegie Library, 2743 Virginia Ave., built in 1899 and closed as a library in the 1980s. It now houses the Metro Police Department’s internal investigations office.

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Newspaper clipping listing names and the injuries they sustained during the Parkland uprising.

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Address: 301 York Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Five boys pose in front of the Louisville Free Public Library on York Street. They each have a bicycle with a headlight, horn, and water bottle. The boys are dressed in white shirts with ties, short…

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805 S. Fourth Street
Date: 1927

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Fourth and Breckinridge Streets

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A fireman takes a drink of water. Two gentlemen wearing coats and caps carry mugs and a pail of water. Behind them firefighters spray water on a smoldering building. Beyond that the top of the Bourbon Stock Yard Co. can be seen.

Edwards recalls the looting and destruction that took place
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