The World's Most Beautiful Places
Smoketown has been a historically black neighborhood near downtown Louisville, since the Civil War. It gained is name from the smoke producing brick kilns that were historically concentrated in the area. The mural depicts famous residents that called Smoketown home throughout its history.
Muhammad Ali Boulevard Sign in downtown Louisville, Kentucky. The street was renamed in Muhammad Ali’s honor in 1978. A Louisville native, Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr in 1942. He would go onto become a professional and Olympic boxer, winning three world heavyweight championship, with a record of 61 fights, 56 wins (37 wins by KO), and 5 losses. His most famous fights included those with Sunny Liston, Joe Frazier, and George Foreman, including the historic boxing event the Rumble in the Jungle, that took place with Foreman, in Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1974.
A stone fleur-de-lis as seen on the Second Street Bridge in Louisville, Kentucky. The fleur-de-lis, was originally a heraldry symbol of French and European nobility. It is also the adopted symbol of Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky, and other regions in the South heavily influenced during the colonial period by the Kingdom of France, such as Louisiana and in particular New Orleans. The city of Louisville was named in honor of King Louis XVI of France, for his assistance to the American colonists during the Revolutionary War.
Fleur-de-lis, is sometimes spelled fleur-de-lys. The meaning in English is lily flower, but the flower most associated with the fleur-de-lis is the Iris pseudacorus, or Iris florentina.