Smoketown, Louisville

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Smoketown Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Logan Street in Smoketown
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Location	Roughly bounded by Preston, Caldwell, and Jacob Sts., and the alley east of Shelby St., Louisville, Kentucky
Coordinates	38°14′27″N 85°44′38″W / 38.24083°N 85.74389°W / 38.24083; -85.74389
Area	780 acres (3.2 km2)
Architectural style	Shotgun house
NRHP reference No.	97000661[1]
Added to NRHP	1997

Smoketown is a neighborhood one mile (1.6 km) southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky. Smoketown has been a historically black neighborhood since the Civil War. It is the only neighborhood in the city that has had such a continuous presence. Smoketown is bounded by Broadway, CSX railroad tracks, Kentucky Street, and I-65.