Louisville Magazine

JUN 2013

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11 First Ohio River bridge A mile-long, 27-span railroad bridge built at the foot of 14th Street between 1867 and 1870 spanned the Ohio River for the frst time at Louisville. A half-century later the bridge was remodeled and strengthened, using the original stone piers, with a vertical drawbridge over the Portland Canal replacing the old revolving turret. The bridge, and others constructed in succeeding years, helped the city gain the moniker "Gateway to the South." 12 Portland Canal and Locks The 1831 Portland Canal and Locks lifted and lowered riverboats — in three stages using cypress lockgates — around the Falls of the Ohio. Over the years the locks have been rebuilt and expanded four times (photo shows second phase) to keep pace with the enormous volume of barge traffc on the Ohio River. The adjacent McAlpine Dam is part of a chain of 21 Ohio River dams constructed to assure a year-round pool of navigable water on the river. 13 General Castleman statue The 1913 bronze statue depicts Civil War and Spanish-American War veteran and Louisville civic leader John Breckinridge Castleman astride his famous mare Carolina, the foundation dam of the American Saddlebred breed. The statue is located on a traffc-circle island Castleman designed as a centerpiece of the Cherokee Triangle subdivision. 14 Crescent Hill Reservoir guardrail Late-18th-century Louisville Water Co. chief engineer Charles Hermany designed the Gothic-style reservoir and its chapel-like gatehouse, which opened in 1879. The original 1850s reservoir, perched on a Clifton Heights bluff, held seven million gallons of river water; Crescent Hill's holds 110 million. 15 Louisville foodwall gate Part of a 4.5-mile concrete foodwall (augmenting a 12.5-mile earthen levee) conceived after the massive 1937 Flood, started after the 1945 Flood and completed 12 years later, this gated section splits Quincy Street lengthwise at Cabel Street in Butchertown. 16 Big Rock The huge, square-shaped chunk of limestone broke off a cliff edge long ago and tumbled into Beargrass Creek in Cherokee Park. Generations of Louisvillians have climbed on the landmark and had their pictures taken. 38 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 6.13

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