Editing Mockingbird Valley, Kentucky (section)

==History==
{{See also|History of Louisville, Kentucky}}

The first house, Rock Hill, was built in 1840 near River Road and still remains. Although it was initially agricultural, wealthy Louisvillians eventually began building summer homes in Mockingbird Valley, starting with Atilla Cox in 1905 (nearby Cox Park is named for his wife Carrie). An interurban railroad soon allowed for commuting to [[Downtown Louisville]], and the first year-round house was built by Stuart English Duncan in 1908. Planned subdivisions were soon built in the area: the Jarvis addition in 1912, Green Hills in 1924, and Overbrook in 1929. It incorporated as a city in 1940. Development has continued slowly as late as 2006, with a final subdivision, Mockingbird Valley River Bluff, being built on 15 lots covering {{convert|54|acre|m2}}. The city's history is roughly similar to that of [[Glenview, Kentucky|Glenview]] and [[Anchorage, Kentucky|Anchorage]], two other eastern Jefferson County cities.

The [[Louisville Country Club]] is located near Mockingbird Valley, its clubhouse built in 1910<ref>Louisville Courier-Journal 15 May 1910: pg. 8</ref><ref>Louisville Courier-Journal 08 May 1910: pg. A3</ref> and designed by the architectural firm of McDonald & Dodd.<ref>Louisville Courier-Journal 16 June 1909: pg.10</ref> The golf course was originally designed by Tom Bendelow and redesigned in 1924 by Walter Travis<ref>Walter Travis J.Society, Inc. website: https://travissociety.com/about/</ref> In 1999, it was one of several private clubs named in a [[racial discrimination|discrimination]] lawsuit and was eventually forced to turn over its membership records, though no investigation was ever conducted by the state Human Rights Commission. It admitted its first black member in February 2006.<ref name="Shafer2006">{{cite news|newspaper=The Courier-Journal|date=2006-02-20|title=Country club gets first black member|page=1B|last=Shafer|first=Sheldon}}</ref>