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Commonwealth Stadium
Shepherdsville KY
~9.14 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Commonwealth Stadium is the name of a stadium in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. This stadium, named for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is located on the campus of the University of Kentucky and is the home field for the school's football team, replacing the smaller Stoll Field/McLean Stadium.
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Valhalla Golf Club
15503 Shelbyville Rd Louisville KY
~15.39 miles from Taylorsville city center
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In the early 1980's Jack Nicklaus was commissioned to evaluate a 486-acre plot of rolling land 20 miles east of downtown Louisville. History's greatest golf champion, Nicklaus, described the site in 1983 as a "golf designer's dream because there is a variety of terrain, vegetation and water to work with."Valhalla Golf Club, located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA, is a private golf club designed by professional golfer Jack Nicklaus. The course, which sits on a 486-acre (2.0 km2) property on Shelbyville Road in the eastern portion of Louisville just outside the Gene Snyder Freeway, was envisioned by local business leader Dwight Gahm (pronounced "game") and his three sons in 1981, and opened in 1986. Keith Reese is the PGA professional.In 1992, Valhalla was named as host of the 1996 PGA C...
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Hoops
12101 Sycamore Station Place Louisville KY
~16.27 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Skyview Ball park
10416 Watterson Trail Louisville KY
~16.32 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Mid America Sports Center
1906 Watterson Trail Louisville KY
~16.98 miles from Taylorsville city center
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My Old Kentucky Home State Park
Bardstown KY
~17.04 miles from Taylorsville city center
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My Old Kentucky Home State Park is a state park located in Bardstown, Kentucky. The park's centerpiece is Federal Hill, a former plantation built by Judge John Rowan in 1795. During Rowan's life, the mansion became a meeting place for local politicians and hosted several visiting dignitaries. Tradition holds that songwriter Stephen Foster, who was a cousin of Judge Rowan, was inspired to write My Old Kentucky Home after a visit to Federal Hill in 1852, although some scholars believe Foster never visited the mansion at all. My Old Kentucky Home became the state song of Kentucky in 1928, and the Federal Hill mansion was featured on a U.S. postage stamp in 1992 and is one of the symbols featured on the reverse of the Kentucky state quarter issued in 2002.The Federal Hill mansion was sold to...
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Saint Catherine College
114 N 5th St Bardstown KY - 502-350-0901
~17.08 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Saint Catharine College is a small Roman Catholic liberal arts college located near Springfield, Kentucky. Originally a women's academy and junior college, the College became coeducational in 1951. The college, accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, has a current enrollment of around 700 students. Around 170 students live on campus.St. Catharine Junior College, now St. Catharine College, was founded and continues to be sponsored by the Dominican Sisters of St. Catharine of Siena. Mother Mary Louis Logsdon, O.P. was the colleges first president, serving from 1931 – 1941.Former Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins, the first woman to serve as the Chief Executive of Kentucky, was the college's eighth president.The College is f...
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Spalding Hall - Oscar Getz Museum of Whiskey History
114 North Fifth Street Bardstown KY - (502) 348-2999
~17.08 miles from Taylorsville city center
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The Basketball Academy
2401 Stanley Gault Parkway Louisville KY
~18.87 miles from Taylorsville city center
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University of Louisville
Clarksville KY
~19.58 miles from Taylorsville city center
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The University of Louisville (also known as U of L) is a public university in Louisville, Kentucky. When founded in 1798, it was the first city-owned public university in the United States and one of the first universities chartered west of the Allegheny Mountains. The university is mandated by the Kentucky General Assembly to be a "Preeminent Metropolitan Research University". U of L enrolls students from 118 of 120 Kentucky counties, all 50 U.S. states, and 116 countries around the world.The University of Louisville Health Sciences Center participated in the development of a highly effective vaccine against cervical cancer in 2006, the first fully self-contained artificial heart transplant surgery, the first successful hand transplantation, and the development of the Pap smear test[cit...
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Seneca High School
Louisville KY
~20.71 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Farmington Historic Home
Louisville KY
~21.63 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Farmington is a 14-room Federal-style home that was the center of the 19th-century hemp plantation of John and Lucy Speed. Designed from a plan by Thomas Jefferson and completed in 1816 using slave labor, the house is newly restored with original paint colors, historic wallpaper and carpets, and furnished with Kentucky furniture and other antiques from the period.Abraham Lincoln, a close friend of John Speed's son Joshua, spent about three weeks at Farmington in 1841. No house in Kentucky more gracefully embodies Federal architecture than Farmington. Striking Jeffersonian features of its perfectly proportioned 14 rooms include two octagonal rooms, the adventurously steep and narrow "hidden" stairway, and the fanlights between the front and rear halls. Exquisite reeded doorways, carved ma...
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Bowman Field (LOU)
Louisville KY
~21.93 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Gerstle's Place
Louisville KY
~22.75 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Louisville MEGA Cavern
Louisville KY - (502) 855-6342
~22.76 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Louisville Zoo
Louisville KY
~23.15 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Founded in 1969, the Louisville Zoo, or the Louisville Zoological Garden, is a 135 acre (0.55 km²) zoo in Louisville, Kentucky, situated in the city's Poplar Level neighborhood. The "State Zoo of Kentucky" currently exhibits over 1,300 animals in naturalistic and mixed animal settings representing both geographical areas and biomes or habitats.The Louisville Zoo is accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and the American Association of Museums (AAM). During the 2006-07 season, the zoo set an all-time yearly attendance record with 810,546 visitors.The Louisville Zoo's mission is "To better the bond between the people and our planet."
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Convention Connection
6009 Brownsboro Park Blvd # E Louisville KY - 502-899-1701
~23.36 miles from Taylorsville city center
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13003 Honeysuckle WayProspect, KY 40059-9716(502) 228-7140
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Caritas Peace Center
2020 Newburg Rd # 200 Louisville KY - 502-451-3330
~23.56 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Treatment Centers offers assessments and referrals for drug rehabilitation, alcoholism treatment, dual diagnosis, eating disorders, sex addiction, gambling addiction and other addictions, and features a comprehensive searchable treatment directory of over 11,500 drug rehab centers, alcohol treatment programs, eating disorder treatment facilities, therapists, and addiction recovery organizations.
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Bellarmine College
2001 Newburg Rd Louisville KY - 502.452.8000
~23.58 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Cherokee Park
Louisville KY
~23.83 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Cherokee Park is a 409-acre (1.6 km²) municipal park located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It was designed, like 18 of Louisville's 123 public parks, by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture. Beargrass Creek runs through much of the park, and is crossed by numerous pedestrian and automobile bridges.According to The Trust for Public Land, Cherokee Park has 500,000 visitors annually, making it tied for the 69th most popular municipal park in the United States.
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Kentucky Exposition Center
937 Phillips Ln Louisville KY
~24.19 miles from Taylorsville city center
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One of the top 10 largest public facilities of its kind in the United States, the Kentucky Exposition Center features large facilities with diverse capabilities. The 400-acre property offers more than one million square feet of indoor space including Freedom Hall, an indoor arena which seats over 19,000 people. The expo center accommodates an amazing spectrum of events year round and remains the permanent home for the Kentucky State Fair, the National Farm Machinery Show, and the North American International Livestock Exposition.The Kentucky Exposition Center and the Kentucky International Convention Center in downtown Louisville, are operated by the Kentucky State Fair Board, an agency of the Kentucky Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet.
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Freedom Hall
Freedom Way Louisville KY
~24.20 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center. It is mostly a basketball arena, home of the University of Louisville Cardinals men's and women's teams since 1956 and home of the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association from 1970 until the ABA-NBA merger in June 1976. Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky, on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky. It is best known for its use as a basketball arena, serving as the home of the University of Louisville Cardinals men's and women's teams since 1956 and as home of the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association from 1970 until the ABA-NBA merger in June 1976.
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The Boardwalk - Opens May 2013
Louisville KY
~24.42 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom, located in Louisville, Kentucky, was the ninth amusement park to use the Six Flags name. The park also included a free water park called Splashwater Kingdom. The park was built on 58 acres (230,000 m2) of land, 38 of which were leased from the Kentucky State Fair Board. The park operated seasonally in 1987, and again from 1990 to 2009. In February 2010, Six Flags abruptly announced the park would be permanently closed due to a lease dispute with the Kentucky State Fair Board. CEO Of Six Flags Mark Shapio stated that they will keep the rides that are on Kentucky State Fair Board's land in Kentucky Kingdom as the Kentucky State Fair Board tries to find new ownership for the park.
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American Printing House for the Blind
Louisville KY
~25.33 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Papa John's Cardinal Stadium
Louisville KY
~25.46 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Papa John's Cardinal Stadium is a football stadium located in Louisville, Kentucky, USA and serves as the home of the University of Louisville football program. It opened in 1998, making it the next-to-last football stadium in NCAA Division I-A (now Division I FBS) to open in the 20th century, with SMU's Gerald J. Ford Stadium being the last. The official seating capacity in the horseshoe-shaped facility was 42,000 through the 2009 season, but the completion of an expansion project in time for the 2010 season will bring the capacity to over 56,000 (the exact capacity has not yet been announced).
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Iroquois Park
Louisville KY
~25.56 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Iroquois Park is a 739 acre (3.0 km²) municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed Louisville's Cherokee Park and Shawnee Park, at what were then the edges of the city. Located south of downtown, Iroquois Park was promoted as "Louisville's Yellowstone". It is built on a large knob covered with old growth forest, and its most prominent feature are the scenic viewpoints atop the hill.The summit of Iroquois Park presents an all-at-once vista of the city of Louisville, seen from the south. A bronze plaque at the site demonstrates the plan of the city's park and parkway system as planned and executed by Olmsted's firm.The park features an amphitheater, basketball courts, a disc golf course and a riding stable. Broadway at...
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Speed Art Museum
Louisville KY
~26.01 miles from Taylorsville city center
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The Speed Art Museum, colloquially referred to as the Speed by locals, is the oldest and largest museum of art in Kentucky. It is located in Louisville, Kentucky next to the University of Louisville Belknap campus.The museum, built in Neo-Classical style, houses over 12,000 pieces of art in its permanent collection. It contains ancient, classical, and modern art from around the world.The museum opened its doors in 1927 and was named after James Breckenridge Speed, whose wife Hattie Speed set up the endowment that funded the museum. She specified that the museum must never charge admission. There were over 200,000 visitors in its first two weeks of operation. In 1997, the museum underwent a $12 million renovation and expansion.Admission is still free, although a $4 donation is recomme...
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Churchill Downs
Clarksville KY
~26.06 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Horse racing in Kentucky is rich in history, dating back to 1789 when the first race course was laid out in Lexington. However, it was almost 100 years later, in 1875, that Churchill Downs officially opened and began its tradition as "Home of the Kentucky Derby."In 1787, The Commons, a park-like block near Lexington's Race Street was used by horsemen for racing. By 1789, complaints by "safety minded" citizens led to the formal development of a race meet at The Commons. The men who organized this race meet, including Kentucky Statesman Henry Clay, also formed the Commonwealth's first Jockey Club. The organization later was named the Kentucky Jockey Club in 1809.Racing in Louisville dates back to 1783 when local sources reported that races were held on Market Street in the downtown a...
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Kentucky Derby Museum
704 Central Ave Louisville KY - 502-637-1111
~26.07 miles from Taylorsville city center
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The Kentucky Derby Museum is an American Thoroughbred horse racing museum located on the grounds of Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Dedicated to preserving the history of the Kentucky Derby, it first opened its doors to the public in the spring of 1985. Much of its early funding came from a donation from the estate of James Graham Brown.The Kentucky derby Museum consists of two floors of exhibit space, including a 360-degree theater that shows the HD video The Greatest Race. Through the film and exhibits, visitors can learn what goes into the breeding and training of a young foal and the path it takes to the Kentucky Derby's winner circle. Every Kentucky Derby win is honored in the Warner L. Jones Time Machine, where visitors can watch any Kentucky Derby from 1918 to the present...
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Thomas Edison House
Clarksville KY
~26.36 miles from Taylorsville city center
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Thomas Edison House is a historic house located in the Butchertown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The house is a shotgun duplex built around 1850. Thomas Edison took up residence in the same neighborhood, possibly even at this location, a part of the time he lived in Louisville from 1866 to 1867. The house features a museum that honors Edison and his inventions.
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