Envelope and letter sent from C. B. Stern to R. J. Railer, Kentucky. The letter body reads "Will call to see you tonight at 8 oclock. Please stay or leave ward." The envelope and letterhead were printed for the Capital Hotel located at 315 - 315 1/2 East Market Street. Envelope lists Lan Bridwell as proprietor and includes an image of the hotel facade. The letterhead advertises "The best hotel of its kind in the world. 90 Rooms, American Plan. Electric lights, electric bells, heated by steam, bath free to all regular boarders, pool room attached."
W. S. Bodley sold this home and property for the Camp; in 1921, some of the property was repurchased by Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston and given to the city of Louisville as George Rogers Clark Park. This house remained in the residential area.
Supposedly the home of early Jefferson County settler Elizabeth Prather, the Ben Boerste house is across Illinois Avenue from the Louisville Nature Center’s parking lot.
Brothers William and Joseph Crawford owned adjoining farms off Poplar Level Road before World War I, and both had to make way for the camp. Today their farmhouses sit streets apart in a residential area between Poplar Level and Illinois Avenue.
Dr. James C. Mitchell leased and then sold his home and property for the Camp, but its distinctive frame remains in the neighborhood behind George Rogers Clark Park.
“Photograph was taken during the first week of October 1917 shows a very fine growth of the second crop of potatoes grown on this same land this year.”
