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As a child, Sgt. Brittany Garrett was neighbors with a girl who lived on the same street but ended up on a different life path.

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JEFFERSONTOWN MAYORS

Ida Burdon

James Bowles

Writer / Beth Wilder, Jeffersontown Historical Museum Director

Jeffersontown is known for having everything one could hope for in a city — friendly residents, excellent services and one of the finest industrial parks in the country. The town is expertly run by a mayor and eight city council members, elected by the residents. But did you know that Jeffersontown did not even officially have a mayor until 1953?

The City of Jeffersontown was incorporated on May 3, 1797, and seven local trustees were appointed by the Kentucky General Assembly at that time. Elections were held every couple of years, and the five to seven trustees voted in by the residents chose a chairman from amongst themselves.

Early records show that the “town of Jefferson” may not have been the easiest place to govern, and of the seven original

trustees who were appointed in 1797, four of them resigned by 1799, only two months after their first recorded meeting. Most of Jeffersontown’s pioneers were of German, Scottish or Irish descent, with strong-willed temperaments that did not take kindly to being told what to do.

Of course, they were inexperienced at politics to begin with. Most of them primarily settled in the area to farm, and the United States itself was relatively new at learning how to govern a democracy. The trustees managed over the next 150 years to run the town rather well though, with laws enacted to ensure the safety and well-being of its residents.

In 1946, the Board of Trustees for Jeffersontown elected Mrs. Ida Burdon as their first female chairman. Quite often, she has been referred to as the town’s first mayor, but, in reality, Jeffersontown was not even eligible to have a mayor of its own

Jack Quick

until 1950, when the town’s population was recorded as 1,246 — falling into the 1,000 to 3,000 population group required to be a fifth-class city. Still, it was not until 1952 that Jeffersontown officially moved into fifth-class city classification, when Gov. Lawrence W. Wetherby at Frankfort approved the necessary legislation.

The first mayoral elections were held in 1953, and James Bowles, who had been chairman of the Board of Trustees, was elected as Jeffersontown’s first official mayor.

His tenure did not last long, though. He served from August 1953 to December 1954, resigning to focus on his accounting business, as he only received $30 a month as mayor Jack Quick succeeded Mayor Bowles and served as mayor from December 1954 to August 1955. At the time, the city had an annual budget of about $5,000.

Quick later became president of the Jeffersontown Chamber of Commerce.

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Jack Orlandi served as mayor from 19551957. He was a firm believer in transparency of the municipal government and gladly provided information to the public. During his tenure, the mayor’s salary increased to a whopping $35 a month.

Next came Ira White, who worked hard to annex property to raise Jeffersontown’s status to a 4th class city. When he moved outside the city limits in June 1959, he turned in his resignation, recommending William Zulauf as his replacement.

Jack Orlandi

Ira White

Zulauf served out the 1959 term, and then was elected as mayor from January 1960 to December 1961.

Zulauf was replaced by Franklin Chambers, who served as Mayor of Jeffersontown from January 1964 to December 1973.

Chambers accomplished much for the City of Jeffersontown, including the construction of the current City Hall building and annexation of land to start the Bluegrass

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Research & Industrial Park. During his tenure, gaslights were installed on the town square, and the Gaslight Festival was created in order to celebrate the new look of the city.

Herb Meyer served as mayor from January 1974 to April 1976. Before taking on that role, Meyer had served six years on Jeffersontown’s Fire Department and 15 years in its Police Department — 12 of those years as Chief of Police.

Meyer was succeeded by Owen Potts, who served from April 1976 to December 1981. Potts put a great deal of effort into correcting drainage problems in Jeffersontown, as well as renovating the old Sunshine Lodge into a new headquarters for the police.

Herb Meyer

Daniel Ruckriegel became a fixture in Jeffersontown, serving five terms as mayor from January 1982 to January 2001. He placed Jeffersontown far ahead of other cities in terms of growth, jobs and prosperity. As the Jeffersontown News-Leader pointed out upon his retirement in 2001, “Ruckriegel’s amazing success was based on it was hard to argue with success.”

Jeffersontown residents were stunned when Ruckriegel decided to step down, but his shoes were well-filled by Clay Foreman, whom he suggested as his replacement. Foreman focused on quality of life issues for Jeffersontown, such as city services, street maintenance and safe neighborhoods, all while keeping local taxes low. Foreman served from January 2001 to December 2010.

Owen Potts

Mayor Bill Dieruf, who began his tenure in January 2011, works tirelessly to promote and enhance programs for all Jeffersontown’s residents — from children to seniors and everyone in-between. Having grown up in Jeffersontown and owning the oldest family-owned business in town (Dieruf Hardware), Mayor Dieruf is proud to serve the oldest incorporated city in Jefferson County and is a firm believer in the preservation of its history for future generations.

Danny Ruckriegel

He truly cares about the town he serves, and it shows.

Let us not forget, however, the many council members who have also served Jeffersontown throughout the years, providing insight and new perspectives on every aspect of city government. While Jeffersontown’s mayors serve 4-year terms, the council members are elected for two-year terms. Most of the mayors who have served Jeffersontown were at one time or another council members themselves, gaining first-hand knowledge of what it takes to run a city as progressive and large as Jeffersontown has become over the years.

Jeffersontown residents owe a great amount of thanks to all the leaders, past and present, who have made Jeffersontown the remarkable city that it is today.

Clay Foreman

Bill Dieruf

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Worth Every Minute Bluegrass Center for Autism Gives Families Hope basement in 2010, grew in 2012 to become the rebranded Bluegrass Center Imagine being told that your child will never for Autism with two locations. speak, then one night you sit down with them to read a book only to hear their quiet, The Center currently has 68 children small voice say “mom” for the first time. enrolled for fall 2017 and a staff of more than 70 teachers and therapists. Student “He just looked over and said mom and I ages at the center range from 2 to 21, guess she lost it,” says Bluegrass Center for with the younger students (ages 3-11) Autism Executive Director, Paul Kichler. at the Kosair Charities East Campus in “I guess she never thought she would hear Jeffersontown and the older students his voice.” (ages 12-21) at the Mid City Campus in the Highlands. A new playground was Stories like this from the Bluegrass completed last fall at the Kosair campus Center for Autism (BCA) make the that addresses the special needs of the countless hours of speech, occupational children and was partially sponsored by and physical therapy worth every minute. the city of Jeffersontown.

The secret of their success is their oneon-one therapy model and an outpouring “It’s wonderful because J-town absolutely of support from the community. What rallied around Bluegrass Center for Autism started as a handful of concerned parents to make this happen,” Kichler says. “We are of children with disabilities in a church forever grateful to J-town for recognizing Writer / Leigh Harrington

the need, addressing it and getting it done.”

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about one in every 68 children are identified with autism spectrum disorder, which is why the center decided to concentrate specifically on autism. Their unique model of one instructor with one child allows each student to work on the skills and behaviors that need the most attention. It’s a model that is cost prohibitive in most mainstream schools, but Kichler said the center has found a way to make it possible.

“It’s amazing to see what these kids are capable of when given the opportunity to have the one-on-one model,” Kichler says.

In a traditional school setting many of the behaviors that are common with autism may result in a child being sent out of the

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“It’s amazing to see what these kids are capable of when given the opportunity to have the one-on-one model.”

-Bluegrass Center for Autism Executive Director, Paul Kichler

classroom or the need for resources that are not covered by the budget. The center’s private, non-profit status means that they are not limited by the learning objectives that public schools must cover each day.

“We can take as much time as we need to focus on behaviors,” Kichler says.

If a child is unable to sit for more than a few seconds at a time, the staff at BCA can use positive techniques to work with them to extend that. The center only uses evidence-based curriculum, such as Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) in an effort to focus on developing communication, academic, social and life skills for its students.

BCA loosely follows the Jefferson County Public School schedule to make it easier on families with multiple children. Their day starts at 8:45 a.m. and ends around 3:30 p.m. While the center uses a one-on-one approach, staff rotate about every 30 minutes to expose the children to different teachers and personalities.

“It would be exhausting for one child and one staff to be together all day,” Kichler says. The children also have opportunities to play with one another to build their social skills and just be kids.

There is an art to designing the classrooms at BCA. While each classroom may have only three to five children in it, the rooms must be arranged not only by age group but by ability and sensitivities. For example, JeffersontownMag.com / JULY 2017 / JEFFERSONTOWN MAGAZINE / 11

some autistic children are sensitive to loud sounds while others enjoy making a lot of noise.

While Kichler says that early intervention is typically preferred, it is never too late to seek help for an autistic child. For example, teaching any teenager to fold their laundry or make their bed can be challenging, however it is a necessary life skill that many autistic teens must tackle in preparation for a residential placement later in life.

“We have a little apartment in our upper campus so the kids can learn how to sweep the floors and clean the dishes,” Kichler says.

The older students may also learn basic job skills if that is a goal. An area of specific interest to most families is simply learning how to act appropriately in public so they feel more comfortable going out to eat or to the store.

As you can imagine, such intensive therapy is expensive, which Kichler says was a big obstacle in the early years. The $26,000 per student tuition didn’t even cover the salaries. Two years ago, the center hired a part-time insurance specialist and now much of the tuition is covered for about 90 percent of the families.

BCA is not your typical school as it is their goal to help students gain the tools they need within a year or two so they can graduate to the mainstream educational system.

“We’re obviously not looking to cure autism because there is no cure,” Kichler says. “We just want to treat the symptoms that are aligned with autism so we can help these kiddos reach their maximum potential to be out in the community and being in a typical developing world.”

Kichler has big dreams for the future of BCA, including making it the flagship center in Kentucky for information about autism and services. He also hopes that one day they will be able to serve all their students in one building, make room for more children and expand their job and vocational services for the older students and young adults.

For more information about BCA or the enrollment process visit the center’s website at bluegrasscenterforautism.org.

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s a child, Sgt. Brittany Garrett was neighbors with a girl who lived on the same street but ended up on a different life path.

“We were friends who hung out regularly.

She later became a drug addict and I became a cop,” says Garrett, a 10-year veteran of the Jeffersontown Police Department. “We wound up living opposite lives and it’s all due to happenstance.”

It’s a sobering story that illustrates just how arbitrary drug addiction can be. Like a tornado, it grabs this person but not that one. It snuffs the life out of one but spares another. Addiction is sad, stupefying and scary.

According to the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy 2015 Overdose Fatality Report, Jeffersontown County has seen more overdose deaths than all other counties in the state.

Compelled to do something, Garrett researched the Gloucester (Massachusetts) Angel Initiative that was launched in June 2015 to get drug addicts treatment before it’s too late. The gist of the program is that anybody who is struggling with an addiction can walk into the police department, turn in their drugs without penalty and receive

help. The program led to the creation of the Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative, a nonprofit organization designed to support local police departments as they work with opioid addicts.

“I thought the Angel Program was radical but interesting,” says Garrett, who sought to set up something similar in Jeffersontown County. Ultimately, the department launched its own initiative in August 2016.

Jeffersontown County experiences an average of one opioid-related overdose a day, a statistic that Garrett attributes to urbanization and access to drugs.

“We’re a heavily populated area,” Garrett says. “We have pipelines of drugs coming into our community given our geographic location because it’s easier to get off of 64 and drop drugs here than it is to go to one side of the state or the other.”

Garrett notes that the lack of affordable housing and limited access to social services all contribute to increased drug use and crime rates. In February 2017, the J-town community was inundated with overdoses as fentanyl, heroin’s synthetic

cousin, found its way into addicts’ hands.

“We had a slew of overdoses in 36 hours,” Garrett says. “I’d never seen anything like it.”

The fact that such potent drugs have become so rampant across the U.S. is what prompted Garrett’s proactivity. Drug dependencies were born out of doctorprescribed pain killers, which created a new brand of drug abusers in moms, dads, sons and daughters. Many of these folks turned to heroin, a cheaper option that was easier to score on the streets and provided just as good of a high, if not better.

“The drug cartels were eager to start pumping those drugs into our communities when we were most vulnerable,” Garrett says.

Drug-related deaths keep climbing because drugs are becoming more toxic.

For instance, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine and many times that of heroin.

“You can use the same dose you used the day before and die,” Garrett says. “You can use less than the day before and still die.”

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According to the Louisville Courier Journal, between 2015 and 2016, overdose deaths increased by 34 percent, largely due to fentanyl or fentanyl/heroin combination.

The Drug Enforcement Administration warns that even two milligrams of the substance can be lethal.

side of addiction,” Garrett says. “These are our mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, coworkers. These are people that come from all walks of life and all financial statuses.”

flag down an officer to enact this program,” Garrett says. “You can’t just say, ‘Oh, I want help’, just as you’re getting arrested. It doesn’t work like that.”

Garrett hopes that the program’s philosophy spreads across the United States.

Before launching the Angel Program in J-town, Garrett initialized partnerships with a variety of local treatment centers and harm reduction organizations who helped the police force understand the holistic picture of addiction. They partnered with The Healing Place, a social model recovery program and Young People in Recovery (YPR), an organization for people in their 20s and early 30s, who trained Jeffersontown police officers in a peersupport type setting.

“We can be strict on enforcement and stop these drug traffickers from pedaling drugs in our city, but we can also extend that olive branch to people who need help and want access to treatment,” Garrett says.

The reason users avoid seeking treatment is often due to the stigma surrounding addiction. Cost of treatment and transportation limitations can also factor in. For instance, perhaps there’s not a bed in a local facility but there is one across the state, so how do people get there? And who pays for it?

Addiction professionals have found that the population of addicts continues to get younger. In the 80s and 90s, it was older people entering treatment facilities, many of them battling alcoholism. Today, however, it’s younger folks crippled by hard drugs.

For some cops, this was a huge cultural shift. “It’s a much different disease we’re dealing with nowadays,” Garrett says. “Alcoholism can get you in the long run, but heroin can “You have to remember, when we see get you in the moment.” addiction, it’s people at their worst — committing crimes, engaging in violent episodes, fighting us,” Garrett says.

Garrett highlights the voluntary nature Working with former addicts, however, of the program, clarifying that the way encouraged officers to see addiction from a people receive assistance is by willingly different side. seeking it out.

“It’s so important for us to see the human

“You have to come into the police station or

Then there’s the overwhelming feeling of simply not knowing where to start. Addicts wonder if they can muster the courage to tell their families the truth or to step inside the police station and divulge their deep, dark secret. For those who do, freedom is its own reward.

Garrett tells of a woman who came into the station last August, heavily addicted to meth amphetamine and heroin.

“Her life was completely out of control,” Garrett says. “But we were able to connect some dots for her and get her into treatment.”

The Angel Program helped the woman get reconnected to her community. She also

THESE ARE OUR MOTHERS, FATHERS, BROTHERS, SISTERS, COWORKERS. THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT COME FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE AND ALL FINANCIAL STATUSES.” -SGT. BRITTANY GARRETT 18 / JEFFERSONTOWN MAGAZINE / JULY 2017 / JeffersontownMag.com

reconnected with her daughter, whom she had lost to the courts when she was spiraling downward. Now clean for nearly a year, she’s seeking to regain custody of her child and working to find a job.

“She’s come a long way,” says Garrett, who often gets calls from former addicts who report that they are doing well. “That’s what it’s all about. Are they doing better now than when they walked in the door? In almost every case, they are.”

The Angel Program in Jeffersontown has a growing network (40-plus) of treatment centers, both in and out of state. Though Jeffersontown County was the first in Kentucky to launch such an initiative, Garrett is optimistic that others will follow suit.

To date, more than 200 police departments across the country have committed to a similar program. To learn more, visit jeffersontownky.com/678/Angel-Program.

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A business built around raising the bar in customer service and loyalty calls Louisville home. Tami Hartley owner of Our House Restoration, a full-service roofing and restoration company, says she pours her heart and soul into every project — values not always seen in her industry.

“When I started in this business, I was working under another company,” Hartley says. “The owner asked me to move from Ohio (where I was living) to Louisville and run a location down here. It turned out he embezzled all the money from the company, and we had clients depending on us. The clients in Louisville only knew me so, ultimately, I was the face of the company down here. I used my own money to make it right with all of our clients and they never knew about what the business owner had done.”

She credits her personal values as well as the 20 years she spent working with Mary Kay Cosmetics for her desire to provide exceptional quality service. “I come from a place that holds very traditional values. I believe in honesty and integrity,” she says.

Despite the difficulties she encountered with her former employer shortly after moving to town, Hartley says Louisville has been the city of possibilities for her.

“It’s tough being a woman in a man’s business,” Hartley says. “I must work 10 times as hard to prove myself. The beginning was the most difficult. I would show up at a client’s house, and they would like me up and down and ask, ‘you’re going to get on my roof?’ I struggled to find my place in the industry, and I was committed to doing it my way. Fortunately, word of mouth has grown my business.”

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Starting her own business was a learning experience, but one Hartley is grateful for.

“I probably lost more money than I made that first year,” she says. “I trust people too much, but I don’t want that to change my character.

I’m driven to help people. So I learned my lessons and moved on,.”

She also credits those who mentored her along the way.

“There have been people in my life who taught me so many things,” Hartley says. “I took a piece from each person. Sometimes people teach you what not to do, and that’s how I created my business. I decided to make the business look like what I wanted it to be.”

She wants people to feel safe and trust Our House Restoration with their business.

“I remember what it is like as a homeowner to have a contractor steal my money, and I never want to have anyone feel like that with us,” Hartley adds.

Projects Hartley has worked on range from the everyday to more involved. One memorable project Hartley has done since starting her own business was a renovation to one of the original Brown family houses.

Hartley and her crew put on a new roof, new shutters and new paint.

“Time had taken a toll on the house,” she says. “We revived it to its former glory. I am so happy to do a renovation on a home and show it off a little bit.”

During the renovation, Hartley salvaged some wood from the home the homeowner didn’t want. She used that wood to make a feature wall in her own home.

“I injected that project into my life and it’s super special to me,” she says.

Our House Renovations began with its primary focus on the exterior of the homes (roofing, siding and gutters), but as the business has evolved, Hartley now also helps homeowners with the interior and can advise them on ideas to make their house feel more like a home.

In addition to the production Hartley puts into the house, she also manages insurance claims. She can assist those who have lost their homes.

“That piece really gives me purpose,” Hartley says. “Knowing I can help people like that.”

Our House Restoration can help you with all aspects of your project beginning with a free estimate, acting as a liaison between you and your insurance company, inspecting over materials with their suppliers and ending with the satisfaction of a quality product. You can call them with questions about your construction needs at 502-272-4824.

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HENRY WATTERSON JEFFERSONTOWN’S MOST FAMOUS RESIDENT Writer / Beth Wilder, Jeffersontown Historical Museum Director

effersontown has had several noteworthy residents throughout its history, but none quite so renowned as Henry Watterson, the famed editor of the Courier-Journal newspaper.

Watterson (Feb. 16, 1840 - Dec. 22, 1921) was a legend in his own time, rubbing elbows with society’s elite and making a name for himself by writing colorful and controversial editorials that appeared in newspapers across the country. Watterson also served as a Democratic representative in Congress from 1876-77 and became widely known as a lecturer and orator.

During his years at Mansfield, Watterson was visited frequently by former presidents, congressmen, statesmen, writers, actors and musicians, including one of his very best friends, vaudeville entertainer Eddie Foy, father of the “Seven Little Foys.”

Watterson had been in the newspaper business since he was a young man, and he became known for his fiercely independent nature and caustic political writings. During the Civil War, although he served as a Confederate due to his strong belief in states’ rights and loyalty to his home, he was not a proponent of succession or slavery. He had no problem criticizing General Braxton Bragg in his articles, and the general wanted to have him arrested for treason.

Still, his views during the Civil War made him a well-known figure, and he became editor of the Nashville Banner

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Watterson’s Jeffersontown connection existed the last 27 years of his life. In 1894, he purchased land on the outskirts of town that was owned by Joseph Hite, a descendant of one of Jeffersontown’s pioneer families, and proceeded to transform the house and property into a grand estate. Watterson left the original 4-room log house on the property intact, but proceeded to add to it until he had created a magnificent, 28-room mansion he named “Mansfield” after his wife’s childhood home in Nashville, Tennessee.

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when the war ended, bringing the paper back to respectability after being virtually closed down for four years.

Not long after that, George D. Prentice, owner of the Louisville Journal, approached Watterson and offered him half ownership and a job as chief editor, in the hopes of reviving the paper’s waning popularity.

Walter Halderman, owner of the Louisville Courier, also offered Watterson an editor’s job and some stock – but no ownership in the paper – so Watterson accepted Prentice’s offer instead. He did, however, suggest merging the two papers, but Halderman declined the proposal.

Watterson quickly brought back the Louisville Journal to its former prominence, and his editorials were a source of great interest throughout the country. Watterson again proposed a merger with Halderman, who this time accepted, and on November 8, 1868, the Courier-Journal was born.

Watterson was chief editor and had a free hand in what to write.

He did not like the business side of newspapers, so gladly gave up all but 75 shares of the new Courier-Journal. Yet the value of these shares was $75,000, an enormous amount in those days, and his salary was $10,000 a year, a sum virtually unheard of, even for New York editors at the time. Watterson had just enough shares of the newly established paper to make his personal life very comfortable and his professional life free from interference with his independent nature and ideas. Watterson would remain with the Courier-Journal for more than fifty years, making it one of the most prominent and influential papers in the country.

Once Mansfield was ready for habitation by the Watterson family in 1896, Henry used it as his home office, penning his articles there in the morning, then riding the interurban into the Courier-Journal’s Louisville office. The drive from Mansfield into the square in Jeffersontown where Watterson boarded the interurban became known as “Watterson Trail.”

Several local residents worked for Watterson. James Wilson, Sr. was Henry

Watterson’s beloved butler, and his wife, Belle, sometimes acted as housekeeper – their son James Jr. grew up to be the founder of Skyview Park in Jeffersontown.

Watterson’s cook, Hattie Harris, once owned the Leatherman cabin at 3606 College Drive. And in 1908, there were two Henry Wattersons in Jeffersontown – a man named Henry Watterson from Newark, New Jersey served as gardener for the great editor.

Watterson loved living in Jeffersontown.

One of his favorite quips was, “I’m a Jefferson Democrat. I live in Jeffersontown in the county of Jefferson.”

Jeffersontown residents knew Watterson as

a gentle, friendly neighbor, while most of the country viewed him as a hard-hitting, no holds barred newspaper editor.

At age 74, Watterson’s career reached its zenith. War broke out in Europe in 1914, and Watterson took a decidedly anti-German stance in the conflict. Other papers in town tried to remain neutral, to avoid offending the rather large German population in the area, but Watterson continued with his assertive articles in support of the United States entering the war, eventually earning the paper a Pulitzer prize. As much as World War I brought Watterson added fame, however, it also caused his career to wane. His relationship with the Haldermans became strained,

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and the paper lost subscriptions because of people protesting his editorials at the time.

attraction. Local residents did not like the idea of the noises or smells a zoo would bring to their tranquil town.

The paper was sold to Robert Worth Bingham in 1918, and Watterson was asked to stay on as “Editor Emeritus,” penning editorials whenever he wanted, on whatever subject he chose.

Several groups had differing plans for Mansfield, including residential development. Many legal entanglements ensued, keeping anything from happening to the estate, as it grew ever more dilapidated. Meanwhile, the house repeatedly fell prey to vandals, and on the evening of Thursday, October 6, 1975, Mansfield was badly burned in a fire.

Watterson retired from the paper in 1919, settling down to a happy and peaceful life at Mansfield. He passed away in 1921 while wintering in Florida. His wife, Rebecca, remained at Mansfield until her death in 1929. Other family members lived in the old mansion, but gradually moved away as the house fell into disrepair over the years.

Watterson’s daughter, Mrs. Bainbridge Richardson, had hoped to see Mansfield turned into a shrine in memory of her father. While there had always been an interest in the project, something always seemed to happen to prevent it. The family received somewhat of a consolation in 1960, when an expressway was named for the great editor.

His estate, however, continued to deteriorate while people argued about what to do with it. In 1963, Marion Miller, Watterson’s grandson, had hopes that Mansfield would be selected as the site for the proposed Louisville zoo and offered $25,000 to go along with James Graham Brown’s $1,500,000 donation for the

The second and third floors were gutted, and the cause was listed as arson. No one ever knew for certain exactly who set the fire, although police at the time highly suspected teens who were constantly to be found there.

Eventually, Watterson Woods subdivision was established on the site of the estate of the most outstanding personality ever to reside in Jeffersontown. Although no tangible shrine to Watterson was ever created, his legacy remains strong not only in Jeffersontown, but in the whole of Jefferson County and nationwide as well.

The outspoken editor of the Courier-Journal made himself a part of history, and Jeffersontown is proud to have been the place he called home.

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