The World's Most Beautiful Places
A view of the Tom Wallace Lake Dam during a summer thunderstorm that spawned tornadoes. Tom Wallace lake is part of Jefferson Memorial Forest, a nature area on the southwest side of Louisville, Kentucky.
A rusty metal railroad bridge crosses the Salt River, a 150 mile tributary of the Ohio River that flows between Parksville Kentucky, and West Point, Kentucky. At this point the river is passing through Shepherdsville, before entering the Fort Knox Military Base to the west.
The river derives its name from Bullitt’s Lick, a historic salt lick west of Shepherdsville, that was the first commercial supplier of salt in Kentucky, and one of the first industries in the state.
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.
