The World's Most Beautiful Places
Sunrise on the banks of the Ohio River near Louisville, Kentucky. Shot from the Second Street Bridge, the rising sun is reflected in the waters of the Ohio River as it rises above the John F Kennedy Memorial, and Abraham Lincoln Bridges of I-65. On the other side of the river is Jeffersonville, and Clarksville, Indiana.
A view of an old red barn, on a foggy fall morning. Part of Beckley Creek Park, south of Louisville, Kentucky. Beckley Creek Park is one of five interconnected nature parks (known as the Parklands) that stretch along Floyds Fork, a 62-mile long tributary of the Salt River on the south side of Louisville, Kentucky, in Jefferson County. Including Beckley, the five parks are: Pope Lick, Broad Run, Turkey Run, and the Strand, comprising more than 4,000 acres. After Jefferson Memorial Forest, it is the largest nature park in Louisville.
Bowman Field was established in 1919, as Kentucky’s first commercial airport. It remains the oldest civilian airport in the state and is the oldest continually operating commercial airfield in North America. It was founded by Abram H. Bowman an aviation enthusiast. The land upon which Bowman Field is built, was owned prior to World War I, by German Baron Klaus von Zedtwitz but seized by the U.S. government during the war, under the Alien Property Act.
Notable events at the aiport during its long history, include the landing of Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis in 1927, and the use of the hangers, and airfield as the base of Pussy Galore’s Flying Circus for the James Bond film Goldfinger in 1963
The airport terminal, the center piece of Bowman Field (and the Bowman Field Historic District), was built in 1929, and is an example of Art Deco architecture, and more specifically the aerodynamic Streamline Moderne style.