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In 1860 John P. Hennings bought some of the property and changed the name to Lexington, after his home town of Lexington, Kentucky. [3] Lexington was a stop on the stagecoach route from Los Gatos to Santa Cruz. In the 1860s, the saw mills moved up into the hills and Lexington began to lose importance. [3]
The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.
U.S. Route 27 (US 27) in Kentucky runs 201.120 miles (323.671 km) from the Tennessee border to the Ohio border at Cincinnati.It crosses into the state in the Lake Cumberland area, passing near or through many small towns, including Somerset, Stanford, and Nicholasville.
All are among the 100 World’s Greatest Places, as rated by TIME. The Manchester , a 125-room hotel that opened last year at 941 Manchester St., made the magazine’s 2024 list of Places to Stay.
Tennessee State Route 22 (Broad Street) crosses US 412 in the center of Lexington, leading north 9 miles (14 km) to Interstate 40 at Parkers Crossroads and south 20 miles (32 km) to Milledgeville. According to the United States Census Bureau , Lexington has a total area of 12.4 square miles (32.2 km 2 ), of which 12.2 square miles (31.7 km 2 ...
In fact, says Briant, there’s a simple reason why, 2,000 years on, we talk about Alexander but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BCE: racism.
This photo taken on Aug. 6, 2023 shows the Athens, Ga. Whataburger location at 3201 Atlanta Hwy. under construction. The fast food chain will be installing a fourth restaurant in the area at 700 ...
Athens is the county seat of McMinn County, Tennessee, United States [8] and the principal city of the Athens Micropolitan Statistical Area has a population of 53,569. The city is located almost equidistantly between the major cities of Knoxville and Chattanooga . [ 9 ]