Elementary School Archives A-F: Camp Taylor

Official Name: Camp Taylor Elementary School

Year Opened: 1917

Camp Zachary Taylor or Camp Taylor was opened as an Army camp when the United States entered World War I.  A Camp Taylor school started to teach soldiers lacking literacy skills and children in the area. The building was furnished by the Army.  In 1922 the school temporarily relocated to the rented East Audubon Park (Baptist) Chapel.  A new Camp Taylor school on Kentucky Avenue near Audubon Park opened in 1923 and the area became a separate county school district.  This school received additions in 1930, 1938, and 1945.  Another new school was constructed in 1970 behind the site of the old building at the Belmar Drive address.  A portable building on the site was furnished in 1927 by the Louisville Tuberculosis Association to house a "health school."