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Smoketown Historic Neighborhood
Smoketown, Louisville, KY 40203
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Louisville's oldest continuously inhabited Black neighborhood since Reconstruction. Named for the smoke of brick kilns that employed early Black laborers. Defining example of post-Civil War Black community formation.
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Smoketown, Louisville
United States historic place
Smoketown is a neighborhood one mile (1.6 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. A historically black neighborhood since the Civil War, it is the only neighborhood in the city that has had such a continuous presence. Smoketown is bounded by Broadway, CSX railroad tracks, Kentucky Street, and I-65.
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