Home of I Willis Cole Historical Marker

Home of I Willis Cole Historical Marker is a park in Jefferson, Kentucky. Home of I Willis Cole Historical Marker is situated nearby to the neighborhood Russell, as well as near the hamlet Portland.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Boone Square and Portland Museum.

Boone Square

Park

Boone Square is one of the Frederick Law Olmsted parks in Louisville, Kentucky. It is also one of the smaller ones, one full city block in size. In the middle of Louisville's working-class Portland neighborhood, it is bordered by 19th St. on the west, Duncan St. on the south, 20th St. on the east and Rowan St. on the north.

Portland Museum

Museum

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The Portland Museum is a neighborhood history and art museum in Louisville, Kentucky. It details the history of the Portland neighborhood both as an independent town in the early 1800s and after Portland's amalgamation into Louisville after the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal.

Central High School

School building

Central High School, formally known as Central High Magnet Career Academy, is a public high school located in the Russell neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Russell and Portland.

Russell

Neighborhood

Russell is a neighborhood immediately west of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. It is nicknamed "Louisville's Harlem". It was named for renowned African American educator and Bloomfield, Kentucky native, Harvey Clarence Russell Sr.

Portland

Hamlet

Portland is a historic district, neighborhood and former independent town northwest of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. It is situated along a bend of the Ohio River just below the Falls of the Ohio National Wildlife Conservation Area, where the river curves to the north and then to the south, thus placing Portland at the northern tip of urban Louisville.

Shawnee

Hamlet

Photo: W.marsh, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Shawnee is a neighborhood in western Louisville, Kentucky. Its boundaries are the Ohio River on the West, Bank Street and the Portland neighborhood on the North, I-264 on the East, and West Broadway on the South. Shawnee is situated 1½ miles west of Home of I Willis Cole Historical Marker.

Home of I Willis Cole Historical Marker

Type: Park
Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.25478° or 38° 15′ 17″ north

Longitude

-85.78984° or 85° 47′ 23″ west

Elevation

459 feet (140 metres)

Open location code

86CP7636+W3

GeoNames ID

8504301

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Zion Baptist Church Historical Marker and Russell Neighborhood Historical Marker.

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