The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The Meadow Vale subdivision was developed in 1963 on the site of wheat and hay farmlands. Meadow Vale was incorporated as a sixth-class city in 1967, and annexed one-hundred more homes in December of that year.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Meadow Vale’s history is told.
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Before
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Meadow Vale is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Meadow Vale has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Dr. John Murray Farm in Murray Hill, 0.9 miles away.
Meadow Vale and the nearest listed places
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Closest to Meadow Vale
Dr. John Murray FarmMurray Hill · Building0.9miCentral Kentucky Lunatic AsylumLouisville/Jefferson County metro government · Building1mi
Bellevoir-Ormsby VillageLyndon · Building1.1miMcClure HouseLouisville/Jefferson County metro government · Building1.4miMaghera Glass-Ormsby HallLyndon · Building1.5mi
Bellevoir-Ormsby VillageLyndon · Building1.1miMcClure HouseLouisville/Jefferson County metro government · Building1.4miMaghera Glass-Ormsby HallLyndon · Building1.5miHow a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Dr. John Murray Farm’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Meadow Vale?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Meadow Vale’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.