I want to thank everyone who responded to my query. Pat and Alan, thanks and I did check out A PLACE IN TIME, a wonderful book for anyone interested in Jefferson Co. neighborhoods. Great photos, including one of the building that aroused my curiosity. I hope to learn more eventually. Thanks to Alex for the info about Tioga Falls. Alex, re: your comment that it is interesting that Pond Settlement was identifiable as late as the 1860's. At that time, Louisville was not a very long city, going north to south. I believe it was the 1870's or early 1880's when what is now called, Old Louisville, became a suburb of Louisville. Today, the city is much larger, even before the pending merger of city and county. I may be wrong here, but I think that in the 1860's, the city may have ended at Broadway. So 10 or 12 miles southward, where the Pond Creek area is, was very rural. What is now termed South Louisville, had a number of small farms even in the 1940's. Some families still had "Out Houses" and got their water from a spigot out on the side of the street. There'd be spigots on the road, perhaps one to a block or some distance apart. The street that I lived on, Euclid, was not paved until the middle or late 1950's. To keep the dust down, the city would send trucks to put a layer of hot tar on the street a couple times a year. Our house did have running water and indoor plumbing, though. I can't imagine how rural the Pond Settlement area might have been. Again, thanks to everyone. Barb T

At the corner of Summit Avenue ( Dahlia Drive ) and Eastern Parkway Under and behind what is now the Medical Arts Building was what we all just called 'The Farm' running all the way down the hill past Hawthorne Hill and past Bates Court to Castlewood Dell and beyond, almost to Ellison Avenue ........ For that matter, Beargrass Creek was heavily wooded from there almost all the way to and through the Cherokee Park System with several old Plantations and a Track ( Horses ) or two over near Belamine College and the Convent nearby ( Sorry- Can't remember the name of that Convent at the moment, but at least three generations of kid's in that area of the Highlands explored those woods over the years- Mine perhaps being the last of them .......... The Caldwell* House on Bates Court was a stop on the underground railroad during the Civil War .......At that time the next house 'down' was the only one one Castlewood Dell with a little spring and stream running into Beargrass Creek ......... *I don't think the Caldwells owned that house originally, but then they also bought ( and sold ) Conrad Castle ( 2 Saint James Court ) from my Great-Grandfather Theophile Conrad's Estate when he passed in 1905. Eric '5th Generation Louisvillian' ----- Original Message ----- From: <keenebj@juno.com> To: <KYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 6:42 PM Subject: [KYJEFFER]Pond Creek Settlement > What is now termed South Louisville, > had a number of small farms .......

It was about 1874 that my ggf, Adam Sebastian, a Bavarian immigrant, had a farm on Bardstown Road near where Baxter Ave. intersects. Actually, he had a grocery there and he stocked it from his farm behind his residence/grocery. Tom of Louisville ----- Original Message ----- From: <keenebj@juno.com> To: <KYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 6:42 PM Subject: [KYJEFFER] Thanks re: Pond Creek Settlement in SW Jefferson Co.KY > I want to thank everyone who responded to my query. Pat and Alan, > thanks and I did check out A PLACE IN TIME, a wonderful book for anyone > interested in Jefferson Co. neighborhoods. Great photos, including one > of the building that aroused my curiosity. I hope to learn more > eventually. Thanks to Alex for the info about Tioga Falls. > Alex, re: your comment that it is interesting that Pond Settlement was > identifiable as late as the 1860's. At that time, Louisville was not a > very long city, going north to south. I believe it was the 1870's or > early 1880's when > what is now called, Old Louisville, became a suburb of Louisville. > Today, the city is much larger, even before the pending merger of city > and county. I may be wrong here, but I think that in the 1860's, the > city may have ended at Broadway. So 10 or 12 miles southward, where the > Pond Creek area is, was very rural. What is now termed South Louisville, > had a number of small farms even in the 1940's. Some families still had > "Out Houses" and got their water from a spigot out on the side of the > street. There'd be spigots on the road, perhaps one to a block or some > distance apart. The street that I lived on, Euclid, was not paved until > the middle or late 1950's. To keep the dust down, the city would send > trucks to put a layer of hot tar on the street a couple times a year. > Our house did have running water and indoor plumbing, though. I can't > imagine how rural the Pond Settlement area might have been. > > Again, thanks to everyone. > Barb T > > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > http://www.usgenweb.org > Home of the oldest and largest volunteer not-for-profit genealogy organization on the web. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Could you tell me if the book A PLACE IN TIME is available for sale and if so, where I might be able to purchase it? Thanks Lucy ----- Original Message ----- From: <keenebj@juno.com> To: <KYJEFFER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 8:42 PM Subject: [KYJEFFER] Thanks re: Pond Creek Settlement in SW Jefferson Co.KY > I want to thank everyone who responded to my query. Pat and Alan, > thanks and I did check out A PLACE IN TIME, a wonderful book for anyone > interested in Jefferson Co. neighborhoods. Great photos, including one > of the building that aroused my curiosity. I hope to learn more > eventually. Thanks to Alex for the info about Tioga Falls. > Alex, re: your comment that it is interesting that Pond Settlement was > identifiable as late as the 1860's. At that time, Louisville was not a > very long city, going north to south. I believe it was the 1870's or > early 1880's when > what is now called, Old Louisville, became a suburb of Louisville. > Today, the city is much larger, even before the pending merger of city > and county. I may be wrong here, but I think that in the 1860's, the > city may have ended at Broadway. So 10 or 12 miles southward, where the > Pond Creek area is, was very rural. What is now termed South Louisville, > had a number of small farms even in the 1940's. Some families still had > "Out Houses" and got their water from a spigot out on the side of the > street. There'd be spigots on the road, perhaps one to a block or some > distance apart. The street that I lived on, Euclid, was not paved until > the middle or late 1950's. To keep the dust down, the city would send > trucks to put a layer of hot tar on the street a couple times a year. > Our house did have running water and indoor plumbing, though. I can't > imagine how rural the Pond Settlement area might have been. > > Again, thanks to everyone. > Barb T > > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > http://www.usgenweb.org > Home of the oldest and largest volunteer not-for-profit genealogy organization on the web. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >