Camp Taylor, Louisville

Camp Taylor is a neighborhood and former military base six miles southeast of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, United States.

First announced on June 11, 1917, it was originally a military camp named for former president Zachary Taylor.

Most of the camp was dismantled after World War I and a residential neighborhood emerged, composed mostly of small bungalow and Cape Cod homes, many built or purchased by soldiers returning from the war.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was stationed at Camp Taylor and mentions it in his novel The Great Gatsby.

In the 2000 census, the population of Camp Taylor was 1,402 [1], of which 94.3% are white, 3.6% are listed as other, 1.9% are black, and 0.2% are Hispanic.