Description: The Jefferson County communities of Worthington and Springdale are located on Brownsboro Road, 12 miles east of Louisville. The area's abundant water sources and fertile soil attracted the earliest settlers in the late 1700s, and farms, mills, and blacksmith shops sprang up along the streams. The Brownsboro Road (originally called Brownsboro Turnpike) served farmers selling their produce, as well as the wealthy "gentleman farmers" who built fine homes in the rural countryside. The fertile soil was particularly suited to growing potatoes, and the Worthington Potato Growers Cooperative handled thousands of barrels daily. The community came together to construct churches and a fine stone school building, establish a cemetery, and organize a fire department. The historic African American community of Taylortown survives in the Taylortown African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Zion Church, established in 1868. Today, suburban sprawl has erased all but a few vestiges of the once-thriving farming communities.
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EAN: 9781531670351
UPC: 9781531670351
ISBN: 9781531670351
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Book Title: Worthington and Springdale by Carol Brenner Tobe
Item Length: 24.4 cm
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Item Height: 244 mm
Subject: History
Publication Year: 2015
Number of Pages: 130 Pages
Publication Name: Worthington and Springdale
Language: English
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 413 g
Author: Carol Brenner Tobe
Item Width: 170 mm
Format: Hardcover
