Seneca High School - Arrow Yearbook (Louisville, KY)

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LEGE From the south battlement of my stronghold I can look out over my domain, keeping an eye on my war- riors and squawsg enjoying their triumphs, sympathizing with them in their sorrows, ready to extend a helping hand or encouraging word when necessary, but always interested in what they are doing. This is my job and this has become my greatest pleasure in life. However, it was not always this way. According to my ancestral people, this panorama I now gaze across was once a part of the great wilderness called Wlihe Happy Hunting Groundi' by the Seneca, Iroquois, Shaw- nee, Cherokee, Vlfyandotte, and Delaware Indians. A French explorer, La Salle, was the first white man to walk on Kentucky soil. In 1669 he made the portage around the Falls of the Ohio River with his caravan carrying their canoes and continued on down the river searching for the Gulf of California. He proved to be slightly east of the correct course, but so was Columbus who thought he had landed in the Far East in 1492. About a century later, while Mason and Dixon were surveying their famous line, two British officers sur- veyed the Falls, and a certain Captain Hutchins drew a map that preserved the early location of Louisville. Now the Falls area is being surveyed again because Kentucky and its neighboring state, Indiana, believe the area should be preserved as a National or State Park since this is the ONLY discovered depository of fossils dating from the Devonian Age. That makes my land three hundred million years old. Imagine that! On May 1, 1780, the Virginia Legislature under the direction of its territorial Governor, Thomas Jefferson, for whom Jefferson County is named, granted Louis- ville its first official charter. By then my domain was being invaded by many adventurous strangers, who having heard of this rich land from a Nfellerw named Daniel Boone who had come through the Cumberland Gap into what he called Kaintuck , traveled by flat- bottom boats down the Ohio River until they came to the same great falls. I don't blame them for deciding . If-7 ...ate as

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Loneson1e's Legend visualize the panic in the Book Store if Dad decided to pay us our allowances in rawhide? In 1789, the first brick house was built in Louisville, and in 1801, the first newspaper, The Farmer's Li- brary , made its appearance. Believe me, it couldn't be compared with the Sentinel that my tribe puts out now- adays. However, in 1830, George D. Prentice came here from New England and established the Louisville This memorial was erected at Hodgensville, Kentucky to com- memorate Lincoln's birthplace. Journal which flourished until 1868 when it was merged with Henry Watterson's Courier. Under the virulent edi- torial pen of Marsh Henryi' this newspaper gained in stature pen of Marsh Henryi' this newspaper gained in of the most outstanding daily publications in the coun- try. That mammoth four lane concrete highway to the north of my fortress was named The Watterson Express- At Sixth and Broadway this modem building houses Louisville's largest newspapers The Courier Journal and The Louisville Times as well as the studios of WHAS television and Radio WHAS. way in honor of the same man. Imagine this! At the turn of the century in 1800, Louisville counted a total population of eight hundred persons. That was 62 fewer than my Bedskin tribe num- bered when Seneca first opened its doors in 1957. How- ever, those few were progressive. In 1308, the year before that great man Abraham Lincoln was born in our state, the people of Louisville erected the first the- atre in the city. It couldn't be compared to our neigh- boring Cineme 1 Xa 2 but it did indicate that the citi- zens were interested in the Fine Arts. Those same folks were just as excited over the steamboat, Orleans, which was the first to ply the waters of the Ohio to our city. We still enjoy the sternwheelers, and we Redskins have the breakfast following the annual Senior Prom on the Belle of Louisville which is beautifully pictured on the end-sheets of this volume of our yearbook, ARROW '67. Before we leave the river 1 should tell you that in 1825 the Louisville and Portland Canal Company was 6 The Watterson Expressway snakes its east-west pathway across Jefferson County.