Poplar Level is a neighborhood five miles (8 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It is part of the larger Camp Zachary Taylor area.
Named for the poplar wood planks that originally made up Poplar Level Road, the main roadway through the neighborhood as it stretched from Germantown to Petersburg, it is bounded by Eastern Parkway to the north, Poplar Level road to the west, Newburg Road to the east, and Interstate 264 to the south. The South Fork of Beargrass Creek runs through the neighborhood.
While many of the southern portions of Poplar Level were developed as part of Camp Zachary Taylor in 1917, most modern residential development occurred in the 1950s, while most modern commercial development, such as area Kmart and Kroger stores, occurred in the 1960s.
A resurgence of commercial development began in 2006, with the development of the Villages of Audubon, the first major commercial development in Poplar Level in over 20 years, adjacent to Norton Audubon Hospital.[1].
Louisville Cemetery, located at the intersection of Poplar Level and Eastern Parkway, The Louisville Cemetery was opened by 1886 in a then-rural setting and has traditionally buried only African Americans.
Our Lady of Peace, founded by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth in 1951, is now one of the largest private psychiatric hospitals in America. Owned by Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's Healthcare.
College graduates are estimated to be 39.9% of the population, while people without a high school degree are estimated at 13.4%. Females outnumber males 54.6% to 45.4%.
Referencesedit
^ . Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-09-16.
^ "Community Resource Network's US Census Analysis: Poplar Level". Retrieved 2006-09-16.
"Poplar Level". The Encyclopedia of Louisville (1 ed.). 2001.
External linksedit
Area parks and attractionsedit
Camp Taylor Memorial Park
George Rogers Clark Park
Louisville Nature Center
Louisville Zoo
Groups and clubsedit
German-American Club of Louisville
Neighborhood mapedit
Images of Poplar Level (Louisville, Ky.) in the University of Louisville Libraries Digital Collection
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