Seneca Gardens

History

The site of the present city was originally part of Farmington, the 1810 estate of the Hon. John Speed and his second wife Lucy Gilmer Fry. Abraham Lincoln was a friend of the judge's son Joshua and spent three weeks at Farmington in 1841 while courting Mary Todd of Lexington. Lincoln would later name Joshua his Attorney General during his second administration. His descendants established the Discher Land Company and participated with Weigel in the development of Broadmeade and the present community of Seneca Gardens in 1922. Owing to Weigel's mortgages, however, the 1929 stock market crash ruined him, and his share of the land fell to his creditors.

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Largest nearby schools

• Marion C. Moore School
  High · Louisville · 2,320 students · 18.3:1 ratio
• Eastern High
  High · Middletown · 2,036 students · 18.2:1 ratio
• Pathfinder School of Innovation
  Other · Louisville · 2,030 students · 28.2:1 ratio
• Ballard High
  High · Louisville · 2,014 students · 18.6:1 ratio
• Louisville Male High
  High · Louisville · 1,991 students · 21.2:1 ratio
• duPont Manual High
  High · Louisville · 1,929 students · 18.2:1 ratio
• Fern Creek High
  High · Louisville · 1,688 students · 15.6:1 ratio
• Atherton High
  High · Louisville · 1,461 students · 18.3:1 ratio