Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1916-10-19
A LETTER FROM LOUISVILLE
Louisville, October II, 1916.

readers might care to know something OF
the country and roads, between Mineral
Point and Louisville, especially in this age
when so many are interested in autoing,
am sending you herewith a brief
write up of our trip. On September 20,
we started for Louisville, KY, and after an
uneventful trip reached our destination
October 4. We stopped enroute at Chicago,
La Fayette, Crawfordville, Mudlavia,
indianapolis, and other points of interest.
This was our second trip over this route
having made our former trip four years
ago. We found many improvements in the
highways since that time, especially
through Indiana, a state that has for years
been celebrated for its excellent highways.
The weather was ideal, and coupled with
an absence of tire or engine troubles, we
enjoyed every hour of our journey. Since
we left home we have driven almost 100
miles and have only had two flat tires. We
have had JOY ride without attendant dan
gers, and the unpleasant after effects
usually accompanying such trips.
Indiana is an interesting state to motor
through, for it has many splendid cities and
towns, and is rich in agricultural products.
The Jackson and Dixie Highway extend
from Chicago to Louisville, and the far
South, and are for the most part in ex-
cellent condition. Millions are being
spent annually, and it, will not be long be-
fore one may drive over the entire route
on highways equal to the best street in
Mineral Point.
Since reaching Louisville we have driven
about good deal and visited some very in
teresting places. The boulevard and park
systems of Louisville afford excellent
opportunities for delightful drives, of IS or
40 miles, over as nearly perfect roads as
can be found anywhere.
From the Ohio river through Shawnee
park and Terrace, to Broadway, we con-
tinue in an almost straight line through the
heart of Louisville to Cherokee park, a
distance of about miles.
The latter park is one of the largest and
beautiful Natural parks in the country.
After driving over winding boulevards and
handsome concrete bridges thrown across
the streams, we suddenly come upon gay
parties playing golf and tennis, or the
great American game of base BALL After
doing Cherokee park we drive out to
Eastern parkway, recently completed
boulevard connecting Cherokee and
Iroquis park, a, distance of E or miles,
On Monday last We drovA East about 8
miles to the old General Zachary Taylor
homestead From the Brownsboro road
may be seen the tall marble shaft, sur
mounted by huge figure of Ex-president
Taylor, resting his hand upon his sword.
Turning from the Brownsboro road into
lane leading directly to the old homestead,
we pass the monument, General Taylor's
Tomb and the burial places of numerous
members of the Taylor family. The home
stead has been attired and enlarged since
his day, and the property is now owned by
DR.. Brady, brother of Mathew Brady, to
whom General Taylor gave the property for
The farm consists of about 80 acres, and
everything indicates that DR. Brady is a
practical farmer as we'll as physician.
Some of the rooms in the house are quite
as they we're when General Taylor left
them, young man, in 1908 The same
old hall clock, tables, chairs, and bed are
still doing service, and fine old oil paint
ing of General Taylor ornaments wall in
the library. In one of these rooms Jeffer-
son Davis wooed, and afterward married
General Taylor's only daughter, Sarah Knox
Taylor.
One visiting this place cannot help but
feel the nation should take steps to pre-
serve this property as shrine to future
generations for the memorial shaft and
Tomb are discolored and weather beaten,
and the latter seems quite insignificant and
neglected, and in a sad state of decay to
contain the dust of former President of
the United States. In striking contract is
the magnificent memorial recently con-
structed and dedicated to the immortal
Lincoln at Hodgenville, KY, a distance of
about 90 miles south from Louisville, where
we journeyed yesterday. No one visiting
this part of Kentucky should fail to see this
splendid memorial, for they will be amply
repaid for the trip. This imposing
memorial was recently turned over to the
United States and formally dedicated by
President Wilson, at which time fully 5000
people were in attendance. The Memorial
is built on the exact spot, where the old
log cabin stood in which President Lincoln
was born, and containing the reconstructed
cabin in as the original, as it was possible
to replace it.
The location is ideal for the building, as
it, sets upon high, terraced hillside facing
the south and is anDroached by innumer-