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Lexington is a consolidated city coterminous with and the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.As of the 2020 census the city's population was 322,570, making it the second-most populous city in Kentucky (after Louisville), the 14th-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 59th-most populous city in the United States.
1902 - Women's right to vote in school board elections in Lexington, Covington and Newport (Kentucky's second-class cities) was revoked by the Kentucky General Assembly. [29] Lexington's Representative William A. "Billy" Klair and Senator J. Embry Allen introduced and led the campaign to repeal the 1894 partial suffrage statute.
This is a list of mayors of Lexington, Kentucky. [1] [2] The city and Fayette County governments were consolidated in 1974. [3] The current mayor is Linda Gorton, a registered Republican, elected in the nonpartisan 2018 mayoral election and reelected in the 2022 mayoral election. [4]
Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century.
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Skyline of Lexington A portion of downtown Lexington in 2006. Kincaid Towers along Vine Street. The urban development patterns of Lexington, Kentucky, confined within an urban growth boundary protecting its famed horse farms, include greenbelts and expanses of land between it and the surrounding towns. This has been done to preserve the region ...
Kinkeadtown was an African-American neighborhood located in Lexington, Kentucky that was established between 1865 - 1870. This historic section of Lexington was created when George Blackburn Kinkead parceled the land near his home to be divided and sold to African Americans. [ 15 ]
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington, Kentucky (66 P) Pages in category "History of Lexington, Kentucky" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.