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1614 Cypress Street, Louisville, KY
DIRT BOWL - In 1969, Louisville natives and Algonquin Park supervisors Janis Carter and Ben Watkins created the Dirt Bowl. What began as pickup games grew into a playground basketball tournament. Named for the dirt surrounding the courts at Algonquin Park, the Dirt Bowl moved to Shawnee Park in 1971. Sponsored by Metro Councilwoman Keisha Dorsey in celebration of the 50thanniversary of the Dirt Bowl.
ALGONQUIN PARK - Algonquin Park was designed by Olmsted Brothers, a well-known landscape architecture firm, in 1929. The sixteen-acre Algonquin Park is one of seventeen parks in Louisville laid out by Olmsted and his sons over a fifty-year period and is a part of the city’s historic Olmsted Parks and Parkways System. Olmsted Parks Conservancy.
Dedicated August 14, 2021.