Kenwood Hill, Louisville

The Esta Cabin at the Little Loomhouse on Kenwood Hill, where the song "Happy Birthday to You" was first sung

Colonial Gardens, a restaurant complex that sits at the northwest corner of the neighborhood

Kenwood Hill is a hill and neighborhood on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are New Cut Road (alongside Iroquois Park), Kenwood Drive, Southside Drive and Palatka Road. The hill, earlier known as Sunshine Hill and then Cox's Knob, was used by Native Americans to spot buffalo. By 1868 Benoni Figg owned the area as a part of his charcoal business. His family oversaw development on the land until it was sold in 1890 to a development company which named the area Kenwood Hill. Southern Parkway (initially called Grand Boulevard) was opened soon after in 1893.

In 1893, Kenwood Hill residents Patty and Mildred J. Hill composed the song "Good Morning to All", which was to become "Happy Birthday to You".

While wealthy Louisvillians built summer homes in the area, and the first subdivision did not begin until 1942, the neighborhood was widely developed by the 1960s, so much so that extensive work was needed to halt erosion on the hill in the 1980s.

See also

• Iroquois, Louisville
• Colonial Gardens
• Little Loomhouse

References

• Kleber, John E., ed. (2001). "Kenwood Hill". The Encyclopedia of Louisville. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. p. 481. ISBN 0-8131-2100-0. OCLC 247857447. Retrieved November 14, 2023.

Further reading

• Buzan, Stefanie Rae; McCandless, Rosemary Hauck (2007). A View From the Top: The Neighborhoods of Iroquois Park and Kenwood Hill. Louisville, Kentucky: The Little Loomhouse. ISBN 978-1-4276-1659-3.
• Lyly, Linda (November 15, 1989). "Kenwood Hill: Heights first housed cool retreats; Senning's, Summers parks addressed the playful side of people". The Courier-Journal. p. 51. Retrieved May 18, 2024 – via newspapers.com.
  • Lyly, Linda (November 15, 1989). "Kenwood Hill (Part 2)". The Courier-Journal. p. 53. Retrieved May 18, 2024 – via newspapers.com.

External links

• Media related to Kenwood Hill, Louisville at Wikimedia Commons