Before the construction of the McAlpine Locks and Dam at the Falls of the Ohio (between Louisville, Kentucky, and Clarksville, Indiana), boats typically had to wait out a low water period on the Ohio river during the summer and winter months. This led to the creation of activities to help visitors pass the time as they waited. One of those activities was goat racing, which developed along the road that would become known as Billy Goat Strut Alley, in an area of the city currently known as NuLu.
Goat races are featured each spring in Nulu’s Bock festival, in honor of this historic tradition.
The lock and dam system began operating in the 1830s.
Built in the Greek Revival style, this was Simpson County, Kentucky’s fourth jail, the first being built in 1819. The unique style of the Old Jail is based on a medieval fortress; the design combined psychological deterrence to crime and provided an escape-proof enclosure. The jail operated from 1860 thru 1879. And acted as the jailer’s residence after that time. During the Civil War, it housed Confederate prisoners, some of whom left graffiti on its walls.
The Old Jail is located in Franklin, Kentucky, near the Tennessee border.
The Aydelott-Rosenberger House was built in 1868 by George Aydelott after moving his family Brandenburg, Kentucky to the Louisville area. Following George Aydelott’s death in 1890, the house changed hands several times before coming under the ownership of the Rosenberger family in the 1930s, who held onto the house until 1997 when it was purchased from the family by the Jefferson County Fiscal Court . The house and its property were added to Farnsley-Moremen Landing property, and designated a Jefferson County Historic Landmark District in 1998.
