East Louisville Attractions A highlight of this area is world-renowned Joe Ley Antiques, 615 E Market. Two acres of unique treasures and unconventional antiques fill four floors of an 1890 schoolhouse ($1, T-Sat 8:30-5, 502/583-4014, handicapped accessible). Hadley Pottery, in historic Butchertown, uses designs created by Mary Alice Hadley in the 1940s. All pieces of this highly respected name in stoneware are hand-painted (free guided tours M-F 2pm, no tours if over 85 degrees, sales room M-F 8:30-5, Sat 9-1, 1570 Story Ave, 502/584-2171, handicapped accessible). The Thomas Edison House, 729 E Washington, displays inventions and memorabilia. Thomas Edison lived in this shotgun duplex in 1866 when he worked for Western Union. Guided tours, perennial garden ($4, T-Sat 10-2, 502/585-5247, not handicapped accessible). At Louisville Stoneware you can watch the nationally-famous handpainted dinnerware being made, from the potter's wheel to the kiln-firing, on a free tour, M-F 10:30 & 2:30 (sales room M-Sat 8-5, E Broadway near Baxter, 731 Brent Street, 800/626-1800, no handicapped accessible restrooms). Gen. George Rogers Clark and Col. Harland Sanders are buried at Cave Hill Cemetery & Arboretum (free, daily 8-4:45, 701 Baxter Ave, 502/451-5630, not handicapped accessible). Tour a totally different world of publishing at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH). Founded in 1858, it is the oldest national non-profit agency for the visually impaired in the U.S. Free plant tour M-Th 10 & 2. The APH Museum houses a rare collection of artifacts (free M-F 8-4:30, 1839 Frankfort Ave, 800/223-1839, handicapped accessible). The 367-acre E.P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park has a pool, tennis courts, athletic fields, BMX track, 1-mile fitness trail with exercise stations, gym, nature trail and picnic areas (3000 Freys Hill Road, 502/426-8950, gym handicapped accessible). The Southern Baptist Seminary, 2825 Lexington Road, features the Joseph A. Callaway Archaeological Museum with rare Bibles, a copy of the Rosetta Stone and a 2,700-year-old mummy (free, M-F 8-4:30, 502/897-4141, handicapped accessible). Whitehall, an 1855 Classic Revival antebellum mansion with an extensive Florentine garden, is at 3110 Lexington Road ($4, M-F 9-5, tours 10-2, 502/897-2944, first floor handicapped accessible). River Road, the seven-mile drive along the Ohio River from Zorn Avenue northeast to US-42 is one of Kentucky's Scenic Byways. You'll see panoramic views of the river, harbors, parks, woodlands and horse farms. The 81-acre Six-Mile Island State Nature Preserve is off-shore. The River Road corridor includes two National Historic Landmarks. Locust Grove, a beautiful 55-acre Georgian plantation, was the last home of Louisville's founder and Revolutionary War leader, General George Rogers Clark. Three U.S. presidents visited here ($4, M-Sat 10-4:30, Sun 1:30-4:30, last tour 3:30, 561 Blankenbaker Lane, 502/897-9845, visitor center handicapped accessible). The other National Historic Landmark is the area's leading contemporary art center, the Louisville Visual Art Association at the Water Tower. Considered one of the finest examples of industrial architecture in the world, this was once the city's water-pumping station. Designed by Theodore Snowden in 1860, the pumping station is of classical Greek style and the Water Tower resembles a Roman triumphal column (free, M-F 9-5, Sat 9-3, Sun 12-4, River Road & Zorn, 502/896-2146, handicapped accessible). Our 12th U.S. president is buried at the Zachary Taylor National Cemetery (free, daily 8-4:30, 4701 Brownsboro Road, 502/893-3852, not handicapped accessible). The Rob Morris Home, the last home of the founder of the Order of the Eastern Star, is in La Grange, 25 miles northeast of Louisville ($2, M-F 8-4, 110 Washington, 502/222-4940, not handicapped accessible). Enjoy spectacular views of the countryside with Crawford Hot Air Balloons, offering rides in the early morning or at sunset ($150 per person, 1812 Foxboro Road, La Grange, 800/242-2966).     Back to Top