Author Lisa M. Pisterman traces Germantown and Schnitzelburg, two working-class neighborhoods just east of downtown Louisville, from an 1790 land grant to Col. Arthur Campbell through farms and dairies, a wave of industrialization in the 1880s, and the tight-knit community life of the mid-20th century.
Drawing on property records, family photographs, city directories, and interviews with longtime residents, the book documents shotgun and camelback houses, neighborhood taverns and bakeries, and landmarks like a Victorian-era cotton mill and DuPont Manual’s football stadium.
Part of Arcadia’s Images of America series, it’s a vivid look at two neighborhoods that still define this corner of Louisville.
Published 2011
128 pages
$24.99