Cherokee Park

Cherokee Park is a 409-acre municipal located in , United States, and is part of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy. It was designed in 1891 by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture along with 18 of Louisville's 123 parks. runs through much of the park, and is crossed by numerous pedestrian and automobile bridges.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Louisville Free Public Library, Crescent Hill Branch.

University
The is a Baptist theological institute in . The seminary was founded in 1859 in , where it was at first housed on the campus of Furman University.

Library
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The Crescent Hill Branch Library, constructed in 1908 in , was one of the first of nine Carnegie-endowed libraries built in Louisville, and is a branch of the Louisville Free Public Library.

Shelter
Photo: Mary Lotus, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Hogan's Fountain Pavilion was a large gazebo and picnic shelter of mid-century modern architecture built in 1965 and located in Cherokee Park, , United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cherokee Gardens and Bonnycastle.

Hamlet
is a residential area six miles east of downtown , US. The area is a collection of small, unconnected subdivisions along Lexington Road and large estates built just outside Cherokee Park.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood four miles southeast of downtown USA. It is considered a part of a larger area of Louisville called . Its boundaries are Bardstown Road, Cherokee Road, Eastern Parkway and Speed Avenue.

Neighborhood
Highlands–Douglass is a neighborhood five miles southeast of downtown , United States. The neighborhood is bound by Bardstown Road, Speed Avenue, Taylorsville Road, and Cherokee Park.

Cherokee Park

Latitude
38.24395° or 38° 14′ 38″ north
Longitude
-85.69549° or 85° 41′ 44″ west
Elevation
443 feet (135 metres)
Open location code
86CP68V3+HR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5269187526
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
4287598
Wiki­data ID
Q2962763
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Satellite Map

Discover Cherokee Park from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to French—“Cherokee Park” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Cherokee Park”
  • Chinese: “切诺基公园”
  • Dutch: “Cherokee Park”
  • French: “Cherokee Park”

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Baringer Hill and Highlands Douglass Neighborhood.

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