Portland, Louisville
Neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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, where the river curves to the north and then to the south, thus placing Portland at the northern tip of urban Louisville. In its early days it was the largest of the six major settlements at the falls, the others being Shippingport and Louisville in Kentucky and New Albany, Clarksville, and Jeffersonville on the Indiana side. Its modern boundaries are the Ohio River along the northwest, north, and northeast, 10th Street at the far east, Market Street on the south, and the Shawnee Golf Course at the far west.
Portland Historic District | |
Location | Louisville, Kentucky |
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Website | portlandlouisville.com |
NRHP reference No. | 80001615[1] |
Added to NRHP | February 21, 1980 |