The museum was originally founded by seven teachers from the old Roosevelt Elementary School with an initial grant the National Endowment for the Humanities. The collection originally consisted of scrapbooks from various local families but has now since been expanded since then to include various artifacts, paintings and other memorabilia from local residents. Upon the school's closing in 1980, the museum was moved to the Brown School before settling into its current facility in 1983.
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The Portland Museum is a neighborhood history and art museum in Louisville, Kentucky. It details the history of the Portland neighborhood both as an independent town in the early 1800s and after Portland's amalgamation into Louisville after the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal.
Beech Grove, Kentucky in United States features restaurants and cafés, hotels and lodging, attractions and museums, shops and services. Townapedia indexed 148 establishments across categories.
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