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17 Daniel Boone statue Louisville native Enid Yandel's rugged sculpture of Boone at the Eastern Parkway entrance to Cherokee Park may be the city's best-loved image of the famous pioneer, who explored the deep woods and fertile river-bottom lands near the Falls of the Ohio around 1770. 18 U of L's The Thinker The bronze cast of Rodin's most famous sculpture that contemplates in front of Grawemeyer Hall is the frst after the original, according to the university's website, brought to America for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Its frst home was a Baltimore museum; then the estate of Louisville art lover Arthur Hopkins bought it for the city of Louisville in 1949. 19 Tingley Fountain, Cave Hill Cemetery A meticulously landscaped former farm whose natural beauty outshines any other site in town, Cave Hill opened in 1848 as a graveyard for well-to-do Louisvillians, including a slew of local historical fgures. 20 West Main Street cast-iron facade Louisville businesses boomed as cast-iron building facades came into vogue in the latter decades of the 19th century, especially the 500 to 800 blocks of West Main Street — a National Register district with more cast-iron facades than any district outside of New York's SoHo. Business owners picked a design from a salesman's catalog, and the salesman measured the building's front, including windows and doors. The facades were shipped in sections, bolted into place, and then painted. You can tell it's a cast-iron front by rapping a column with a knuckle, listening for a hollow sound. 21 Gen. George Rogers Clark's sword Originally stiffed by his home state of Virginia for his Revolutionary War service in the West, Louisville's founder was awarded this sword — inscribed "A Tribute to Courage & Patriotism" — and a modest military pension at Locust Grove in the winter of 1813. 6.13 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 39