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The Jeffersontown Restoration Society was a program created by the Jeffersontown Chamber of Commerce in 1966. The Society, under the leadership of Chairman Peggy Weber, proposed a resolution to the City Council requesting that the owners of buildings in the town square be persuaded to remodel their storefronts to conform with Early American or Federal-style architecture. Part of this new look had to do with the fact that Peggy and her friend, Petra Williams, had recently discovered an original town gas lamp that had been buried under the steps of a local church for years. They convinced town leaders to purchase replica gaslights to line the newly remodeled town square, and Ozzy Oestringer set to work fashioning 26 of the old-style lamps. To celebrate the town's new look, Peggy and Petra suggested that a festival be held on the town square. The first Gaslight Festival was held in 1970. The original event took place in front of the J*town Shopping Center on Taylorsville Road, because Mayor Franklin Chambers did not want to mess up the newly remodeled square less

In the late 1700s Revolutionary War veterans and other colonizers began to settle in the area that would eventually become known as Jeffersontown. At that point in time, life was still harrowing with the constant threat of Indian attacks, but the pioneer spirit preserved and more settlers arrived to populate the lovely, arable lands just south of the Ohio river and east of the port that would become the City of Louisville. In 1794, Abraham Bruner purchased 122 acres on a forested ridge of Chenoweth Run Creek with the intent of establishing a town at the intersection of two roads commonly traveled by the new settlers. Business owners quickly obtained plots from Bruner and set up shop along Main and Market streets, which would later become known as Patterson Trail and Taylorsville Road. On May 3, 1797, the city was officially incorporated and names after the current Vice-President, Thomas Jefferson. even though Jefferson County Court recognized the new city as the "Town of Jefferson" less

JEFFERSONTOWN IS GROWING AND GROWING WITH NEW DEVELOPMENTS less