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WHY WE LOVE LOUISVILLE . . . AND WHY WE BELIEVE YOU WILL TOO. Travel the highways and byways of Georgia, cross the state from north to south and east to west -- you will not find a finer example of the unique values of sophisticated American rural life! Louisville, Georgia, the first permanent capital of the State of Georgia and the county seat of Jefferson County, offers visitors the opportunity to experience the wonderful feeling of a traditional and cultured rural Downtown. Come. Bring your family. Get to know our stately old homes, our quiet, tree-lined streets, our historic commercial and government buildings Downtown. Share in our progress and events. We want you to get to know our past, our present, and our future . . . and we want to get to know you. So accept our invitation and come Downtown. What a history we have. Dating back centuries -- even millennia -- before American independence, the nearby Old Town settlement on the banks of the Ogeechee River served as a center of prehistoric native American commerce. The old Queensborough Settlement just outside Downtown was an embattled frontier as Georgians moved inland to settle our great State. Around the corner from Broad Street, Revolutionary War soldiers are buried in a rare cemetery from that period. In the heart of Downtown stands the old Market House, built in eighteenth century and standing ever since -- the only structure of its kind in Georgia. The Jefferson County Courthouse -- like many of the wonderful buildings in Louisville, designed by noted Georgia architect and Louisville native son Willis Denny -- today stands exactly where there first State capitol building stood when the state of Georgia built its first permanent capital city. But Louisville is not only about the past. Today, as throughout its over-300-year history, Downtown Louisville enjoys a vibrant commercial, social, and cultural life. As the educational and governmental center of the life of Jefferson County, Louisville embraces and sets the standard among its lovely rural sister communities of Wrens, Wadley, and Bartow. Downtown is home to one of the best regional newspapers in the country -- the award-winning News and Farmer -- and one of the fastest growing regional banks in the state -- Queensborough National Bank and Trust. The Chamber of Commerce of Jefferson County calls Downtown home, and so do the very active and important Jefferson County Historical Society and the Arts Guild of Jefferson County. We are proud of our schools and our churches, too -- proud of our remarkable and lovely community. Our fundamental mission is preservation -- preservation of our small-town, rural way of life . . . preservation of our profound cultural heritage . . . preservation of our community values . . . preservation of our exceptionally beautiful architectural resources. We invite growth -- especially growth that is deeply rooted in our way of life, our heritage, and our history. Every day we are investing in tomorrow -- through community enhancement and development of cultural resources, because we believe in the promise of Downtown's future. Come visit us. Enjoy our thriving arts community. Experience our remarkable historic buildings. Explore our rich history. Shop and dine in our quaint and lively Downtown. Discover the best of rural life in America -- right in your own back yard.
This Website is maintained by Friends of Historic Downtown Louisville, Inc. Please let us know what you think of it by contacting our Webmaster SPARE LLC at webplay@ourlouisville.com. Copyright © Friends of Historic Downtown Louisville, Inc. 2005 -- All Rights Reserved |
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