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Neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
38°11′44″N
85°42′56″W
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38.19560°N 85.71550°W
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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
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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
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References
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- ^
"Community Resource Network"
. Archived from
the original
on 2006-05-13
. Retrieved
2006-09-16
.
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