Camp Taylor, Louisville

38°11′44″N 85°42′56″W / 38.19560°N 85.71550°W / 38.19560; -85.71550

Camp Taylor is a neighborhood and former military base six miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States. First announced on June 11, 1917, it was originally a military camp named for former president Zachary Taylor. For a time it was America's largest military training camp, housing 47,500 men at one time, and spurred development in an area that was previously dominated by farmland.

Most of the camp was dismantled after World War I and a residential neighborhood emerged, composed mostly of small bungalow and Cape Cod homes, many built or purchased by soldiers returning from the war. Many of these buildings were built from lumber and other materials from the dismantled military buildings. The working class community was annexed by Louisville in 1950.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was stationed at Camp Taylor and mentions it in his novel The Great Gatsby.

Bellarmine University is built on part of the location of the former Camp Taylor.

Demographics

In the 2000 census, the population of Camp Taylor was 1,402 ^[1], of which 94.3% are white, 3.6% are listed as other, 1.9% are black, and 0.2% are Hispanic. College graduates are 10.9% of the population, people without a high school degree are 27.3%. Females outnumber males 54.9% to 45.1%.

See also

• Camp Zachary Taylor

References

1. "Community Resource Network". Archived from the original on 2006-05-13. Retrieved 2006-09-16.

External links

• Camp Zachary Taylor Neighborhood Association
• US Census Analysis: Camp Taylor
• Street Map: Camp Taylor
• "Camp Taylor: The Military's Influence Lived on Long After World War I in Area's Houses, Camaraderie" — Article by Grace Schneider of The Courier-Journal

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Zachary Taylor

• 12th President of the United States (1849–1850)

Life

• Hare Forest Farm
• 7th Infantry Regiment
• Cypress Grove Plantation
• Forts of Vincennes, Indiana
• Fort Harrison, Indiana
• Battle of Wild Cat Creek
• Credit Island
• Fort Johnson
• Fort Howard
• Fort Jesup
• Fort Snelling
• Fort Crawford
• 1st Infantry Regiment
• Fort Gardiner
• Fort Basinger
• Battle of Lake Okeechobee
• Army of Occupation
• Battle of Palo Alto
• Battle of Resaca de la Palma
• Battle of Monterrey
• Battle of Buena Vista
• Congressional Gold Medal
• 1848 United States presidential election
• 1848 Whig National Convention
• Zachary Taylor and slavery

Presidency

• Inauguration of Zachary Taylor
• Mexican Cession
• State of Deseret
• Compromise of 1850
• Washington Monument

Public image

• Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
• Camp Taylor, Louisville
• Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park
• SS Zachary Taylor
• Taylor County, Georgia
• Taylor County, Iowa
• Taylor County, Kentucky
• Rough and Ready, California
• Taylor, Michigan
• Taylor Street

Family

• Margaret Taylor (wife)
• Sarah Knox Taylor (daughter)
• Mary Elizabeth Bliss (daughter)
• Richard Taylor (son)
• John Taylor Wood (grandson)
• Zachary Taylor Wood (great-grandson)
• Charles Carroll Wood (great-grandson)
• Stuart Wood (great-great-grandson)
• Richard Taylor (father)
• Joseph Pannell Taylor (brother)
• Isaac Allerton Jr. (great-great-grandfather)

• ← James K. Polk
• Millard Fillmore →

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