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Kenwood Hill is a hill andneighborhood on the south side ofLouisville, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are New Cut Road (alongsideIroquois Park), Kenwood Drive, Southside Drive and Palatka Road. The hill, earlier known asSunshine Hill and thenCox's Knob, was used byNative Americans to spotbuffalo. By 1868 Benoni Figg owned the area as a part of hischarcoal business. His family oversaw development on the land until it was sold in 1890 to a development company which named the area Kenwood Hill.Southern Parkway (initially called Grand Boulevard) was opened soon after in 1893.
In 1893, Kenwood Hill residentsPatty andMildred J. Hill composed the song "Good Morning to All", which was to become "Happy Birthday to You".
While wealthy Louisvillians builtsummer homes in the area, and the first subdivision did not begin until 1942, the neighborhood was widely developed by the 1960s, so much so that extensive work was needed to halterosion on the hill in the 1980s.
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