Historic Properties
- See also: History of Louisville, Kentucky
- Basilica of Saint Joseph Proto-Cathedral (Bardstown) — first Roman Catholic cathedral west of the Appalachian Mountains
- Belle of Louisville, the oldest Mississippi-style steamboat in operation on the inland waterways of the U.S. (Built 1914-1915 in Pittsburgh for service in Memphis as the Idlewild, renamed Avalon in 1948, purchased by Jefferson County and renamed Belle of Louisville in 1962.)
- Bray Place, the land and 1796 home, now called the Bashford Manor Bed and Breakfast, one of the oldest houses in Kentucky.
- The Brennan House
- Brown Hotel, where the Hot Brown was invented.
- Cathedral of the Assumption
- Colgate Clock (Clarksville, Indiana), the second largest clock in the world.
- Colonial Gardens, a local landmark in the Kenwood Hill neighborhood.
- Conrad-Caldwell House
- Culbertson Mansion State Historic Site (New Albany, Indiana), most noted for its annual haunted house located in the mansion's carriage barn.
- Farmington Historic Plantation, including the Thomas Jefferson-designed home of the Speed family, visited by Abraham Lincoln.
- The Filson Historical Society, a historical society and research library housed in the Ferguson Mansion, a Beaux-Arts style mansion built in 1906.
- Fort Duffield, a Civil War fort.
- Fort Knox, including the U.S. Bullion Depository and General George Patton Museum (Bullitt, Hardin and Meade Counties)
- Fort Nelson Park, located in the same spot as the second on-shore fort in Kentucky.
- Galt House, the famous hotel where Civil War generals planned campaigns, including William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and March to the Sea.
- Historic Locust Grove farm, home of George Rogers Clark and site of the homecoming of Lewis and Clark.
- Little Loomhouse
- Louisville Stoneware, making pottery since 1815.
- My Old Kentucky Home State Park (Bardstown), featuring the Federal Hill mansion (inspiration for Stephen Foster's My Old Kentucky Home) and Stephen Foster - The Musical
- Peterson-Dumesnil House
- Riverside, The Farnsley-Moremen Landing
- Scribner House (New Albany, Indiana)
- Seelbach Hotel, the famous hotel written about by F. Scott Fitzgerald and frequently visited by Al Capone.
- Spalding Hall (Bardstown)
- Thomas Edison House
- Union Station
- United States Marine Hospital of Louisville
- Vogue Theater, a movie theater in St. Matthews that closed in 1998, known for showing The Rocky Horror Picture Show for 25 years. Its sign is being refurbished as a historical landmark.
- Waverly Hills Sanatorium
- Whitehall House & Gardens
- Whitney Young Birthplace and Museum
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“The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society: to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)