1965 Map of Louisville East

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Cave Hill Cemetery and Calvary Cemetery anchor the historic Highlands district as mid-century development pushes eastward from central Louisville. This survey illustrates the rapid suburbanization of Jefferson County during the post-war era, with the newly established Henry Watterson Expressway (Interstate 264) carving through established neighborhoods like Audubon Park and Strathmoor Village. The landscape is a mix of traditional residential planning and large-scale industrial or institutional blocks, including the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center and the dual aviation hubs of Bowman Field and Standiford Field. Numerous educational and religious institutions are plotted, from Bellarmine College to local parish schools like St Martha Sch, showing the dense community infrastructure of the 1960s. To the south, the terrain becomes more open around Okolona and Smyrna, where the Louisville and Nashville Railroad still defines the local transport corridor.