Crescent Hill is a neighborhood four miles (6 km) east of downtown Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...

 USA. Area was originally called "Beargrass" because it sits on a ridge between two forks of Beargrass Creek

Beargrass Creek

Beargrass Creek is the name given to several forks of a creek in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The Beargrass Creek watershed is the largest in the county, draining over ....

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Development first began during the 1850s when the Louisville and Lexington
turnpike (now Frankfort Avenue) and the Louisville and Frankfort railroad
were built through the area. In 1853 a 38 acres (153,780.7 m²) fair grounds were built and were
used to host the Agriculture and Technology fair, which had 20,000 visitors on one
day in 1857. In 1883 the fair grounds were razed & St Joseph's Orphanage was
built in its place.

In the late 19th century The City of Louisville annexed the old town of Crescent Hill. The Crescent Hill Community Council was incorporated in the early 1970s and became very active after the tornado of April 1974. In the early 1980s the CHCC formed the Peterson-Dumesnil House Foundation and purchased the house-301 South Peterson- from the Jefferson County Board of Education.

The boundaries of Crescent Hill are N Ewing Ave to the St. Matthews city limit (roughly Cannons Lane) by Brownsboro Road to Lexington Road. Frankfort Avenue generally bisects the neighborhood.

Attractions in Crescent Hill include the Louisville Water Company

Louisville Water Company

Louisville Water Company is a municipal water company which provides water to the more than 800,000 people in Louisville, Kentucky as well as parts of Oldham and Bullitt counties. Additionally, they provide wholesale water to the outlying counties of Shelby, Spencer, and Nelson counties...

 Reservoir, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary , located in Louisville, Kentucky, is the oldest of the six seminaries affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention . The seminary was founded in 1859, at Greenville, South Carolina. After being closed during the Civil War, it moved in 1877 to Louisville...

, and the Peterson-Dumesnil House

Peterson-Dumesnil House

The Peterson-Dumesnil House is a Victorian-Italianate house in the Crescent Hill neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Of the remaining large country estates built by Louisvillians in the late 19th century to the east of the city, it is the closest to Downtown Louisville, and primarily for...

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Demographics

As of 2000, the population of Crescent Hill was 7,566 , of which 91.4% are white, 4.2% are listed as other, 3.1% are black, & 1.3% are Hispanic. College graduates are 52.3% of the population, people without a high school degree are 8%. Females outnumber males 54.9% to 45.12%.

External links

• http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISORESTMP=results.php&CISOVIEWTMP=item_viewer.php&CISOMODE=grid&CISOGRID=thumbnail,A,1;title,A,1;descri,200,0;none,200,0;none,A,0;20;title,none,none,none,none&CISOBIB=title,A,1,N;subjec,A,0,N;descri,200,0,N;none,A,0,N;none,A,0,N;20;title,none,none,none,none&CISOTHUMB=20%20(4x5);title,none,none,none,none&CISOTITLE=20;title,none,none,none,none&CISOHIERA=20;subjec,title,none,none,none&CISOSUPPRESS=0&CISOTYPE=link&CISOOP1=exact&CISOFIELD1=title&CISOBOX1=&CISOOP2=exact&CISOFIELD2=coveraa&CISOBOX2=Crescent+Hill+%28Louisville%2C+Ky.%29&CISOOP3=exact&CISOFIELD3=descri&CISOBOX3=&CISOOP4=exact&CISOFIELD4=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOBOX4=&c=exact&CISOROOT=all Images of Crescent Hill (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collections]
• Crescent Hill Community Council
• Street map of Crescent Hill
• "Crescent Hill: Ridge's Contour Gave Rise to Name; Mule Cars Gave Way to Electric Trolleys on Frankfort Avenue" — Article by Martha Elson of The Courier-Journal
  The Courier-Journal
  The Courier-Journal, locally called "The C-J", is the main newspaper for the city of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the paper is the 48th largest daily paper in the United States and the single largest in Kentucky.- Origins :The...
  
  
• Southern Living: The South's Best Comeback Neighborhoods - Crescent Hill in Louisville, KY