The Cabbage Patch
1413 S. Sixth St. Louisville, KY
There are three topics here.
- The Cabbage Patch Neighborhood
- The Cabbage Patch Book
- The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.
The Cabbage Patch Location
The Cabbage Patch neighborhood was located south of Broadway and just west of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The families were poor and many had big families. The area was called “The Cabbage Patch” because of the many immigrants living in the area who had backyard gardens planted with cabbages.
Cabbage Patch Book
Alice Hegan Rice, also known as Alice Caldwell Hegan was an American novelist born in 1870 in Shelbyville Ky. Alice had a relatively privileged upbringing but her views on life changed when she went to a mission for Sunday School that was in a poor area of Louisville called the “Cabbage Patch”.
This experience introduced her to the world of poverty and the underprivileged. She would later use this new-found knowledge to create her most widely known novel, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. It attained international stature as a book, then on the stage, and eventually as four movies, a silent film and three talkies. The book has never gone out of print since its publication in 1901. Alice Hegan Rice died in 1942 in Louisville.
The Cabbage Patch Settlement House
Louise Marshall was born in Louisville in 1888. She was a member of a prominent and wealthy Louisville family. She first became acquainted with the Cabbage Patch section of the city when she went with her parents to a small Presbyterian mission where they taught Sunday school. The mission was in the section bounded roughly by the L. & N. Railroad to the east and the Southern Railroad to the west. This was a shipping area for the many cabbages which grew in the small gardens thereabouts.
Louise was upset by the sights of people sleeping on straw, public drunkenness, and unkempt children roaming the streets. She persuaded her father to buy a lot at 1409 S. Ninth Street and, through donations from friends, a building was erected. In 1910, 21 year old Louise Marshall established a settlement house in that building and named it Cabbage Patch for that Louisville neighborhood. She had very strict rules. The people who came to the Cabbage Patch Settlement House had to follow her direction.
Alice Hegan Rice, author of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" was a member of the first board of directors. The book did not refer to the settlement house but to the neighborhood at the turn of the century.
A “settlement house” is an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community. The Cabbage Patch Settlement House is a local, non-profit Christian organization. Their mission is to equip and empower at-risk children, youth and their families to be self-sufficient by helping them maximize their economic, educational, emotional, and spiritual potential.
In 1929, The Cabbage Patch Settlement House had outgrown its facilities and moved to its present location at 1413 South Sixth Street.
A 1971 article in the Courier Journal noted that culturally deprived children from poverty homes that attended the settlement house had earned college and post-graduate degrees. Others had become successful businessmen. Around 17 children who were first introduced to sports at the settlement were high school coaches in the Louisville area.
Most photos on this website are about the past but The Cabbage Patch is still going strong after 110 years.
The Cabbage Patch Settlement House website. - http://cabbagepatch.org/
- The Cabbage Patch Neighborhood
- The Cabbage Patch Book
- The Cabbage Patch Settlement House.
The Cabbage Patch Location
The Cabbage Patch neighborhood was located south of Broadway and just west of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. The families were poor and many had big families. The area was called “The Cabbage Patch” because of the many immigrants living in the area who had backyard gardens planted with cabbages.
Cabbage Patch Book
Alice Hegan Rice, also known as Alice Caldwell Hegan was an American novelist born in 1870 in Shelbyville Ky. Alice had a relatively privileged upbringing but her views on life changed when she went to a mission for Sunday School that was in a poor area of Louisville called the “Cabbage Patch”.
This experience introduced her to the world of poverty and the underprivileged. She would later use this new-found knowledge to create her most widely known novel, Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. It attained international stature as a book, then on the stage, and eventually as four movies, a silent film and three talkies. The book has never gone out of print since its publication in 1901. Alice Hegan Rice died in 1942 in Louisville.
The Cabbage Patch Settlement House
Louise Marshall was born in Louisville in 1888. She was a member of a prominent and wealthy Louisville family. She first became acquainted with the Cabbage Patch section of the city when she went with her parents to a small Presbyterian mission where they taught Sunday school. The mission was in the section bounded roughly by the L. & N. Railroad to the east and the Southern Railroad to the west. This was a shipping area for the many cabbages which grew in the small gardens thereabouts.
Louise was upset by the sights of people sleeping on straw, public drunkenness, and unkempt children roaming the streets. She persuaded her father to buy a lot at 1409 S. Ninth Street and, through donations from friends, a building was erected. In 1910, 21 year old Louise Marshall established a settlement house in that building and named it Cabbage Patch for that Louisville neighborhood. She had very strict rules. The people who came to the Cabbage Patch Settlement House had to follow her direction.
Alice Hegan Rice, author of "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" was a member of the first board of directors. The book did not refer to the settlement house but to the neighborhood at the turn of the century.
A “settlement house” is an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community. The Cabbage Patch Settlement House is a local, non-profit Christian organization. Their mission is to equip and empower at-risk children, youth and their families to be self-sufficient by helping them maximize their economic, educational, emotional, and spiritual potential.
In 1929, The Cabbage Patch Settlement House had outgrown its facilities and moved to its present location at 1413 South Sixth Street.
A 1971 article in the Courier Journal noted that culturally deprived children from poverty homes that attended the settlement house had earned college and post-graduate degrees. Others had become successful businessmen. Around 17 children who were first introduced to sports at the settlement were high school coaches in the Louisville area.
Most photos on this website are about the past but The Cabbage Patch is still going strong after 110 years.
The Cabbage Patch Settlement House website. - http://cabbagepatch.org/
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