Graeter's
Address:
841 S Hurstbourne Pkwy, Louisville, KY 40222
Phone:
(502) 394-9747
Nice to Know:
- Parking Lot
- Wifi No
- Accepts Credit Cards Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible Yes
Other Details:
In the mid 1800s, the Graeter family emigrated fromBavaria eventually settling in Cincinnati, Ohio. While justa teenager, Louis Charles Graeter began making ice creamin a market at the base of Sycamore Hill. In the age beforemechanized freezers, ice cream was a rare treat, and had tobe made in very small batches using rock salt and ice tofreeze the cream.After years of youthful adventures, Charlie finally settled down, marrying Regina Berger, the daughter of a prominent local businessman. With his new wife, Charlie took the city’s Main Street incline line up the hillside to 967 East McMillan Street in Walnut Hills where they made ice cream and chocolate confections in the back room, sold them out front and lived upstairs. The Graeter family enjoyed many years of success until Charlie’s life was cut short by a tragic streetcar accident in 1919.But where Charlie’s colorful story ends, Regina’s remarkable one begins
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