Louisville, one of the incorporated cities of Pottawatomie county, is located in Louisville township on Rock creek, 11 miles southeast of Westmoreland, the county seat, about 3 miles from Wamego. It is connected with both these places by daily stage. It has a weekly newspaper, a flour mill and a money order postoffice. The population in 1910 was 264. The town site was preëmpted by Robert Wilson, who built a log cabin on Rock creek at the old military crossing in the early '50s and kept a hotel there for many years. With him were his sons, James and Louis, the town being named after the latter. It was recorded as a town site in 1857. It is very pleasantly situated and there are said to be mineral springs with medicinal properties near it. Louisville was the county seat from 1861 to 1882.