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Lexington was laid out on 4 January 1836 by Asahel Gridley (1810–1881) and James Brown (c. 1802- ?). Gridley was a lawyer and banker from Bloomington who would eventually become the richest man in McLean County; Brown was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and Lexington, Illinois, seems to have been his only attempt at founding a town. [5]
Marty Hoey (1951 – May 15, 1982) was a mountaineer and mountain guide who took part in a 1982 expedition to Mount Everest.During an attempted ascent that would have made her the first American woman to summit Everest, she plunged over the edge of the Great Couloir to her death, as the result of an unsecured climbing harness.
The David Hyatt Van Dolah House (locally known as The Castle) is a historic house located at 10 North Spencer Street in Lexington, Illinois.The house was built in 1898 for David Hyatt Van Dolah, a prominent local landowner best known as an importer and broker of French horses.
Heinrich Harrer (German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; 6 July 1912 – 7 January 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, explorer, writer, sportsman, geographer, and briefly SS sergeant. He was a member of the four-man climbing team that made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger , the "last problem" of the Alps , in July 1938.
Aerial view of the Walhalla memorial Walhalla, seen from the Danube River. The Walhalla (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a hall of fame Monument that honours laudable and distinguished people in German history – "politicians, sovereigns, scientists and artists of the German tongue"; [1] thus the celebrities honoured are drawn from Greater Germany, a wider area than today's Germany, and even as ...
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. (June 7, 1910 – January 10, 2007) was an American explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer.He established the Boston Museum of Science, served as its director from 1939–1980, and from 1985 until his death served as its Honorary Director (a lifetime appointment).
The John Patton Log Cabin is a log home located in Lexington Park District Park in Lexington, Illinois. The home was built in 1829 by John Patton, an early settler of McLean County . Patton, who was originally from Switzerland County, Indiana , came to a Kickapoo village in the area; he built his cabin with the tribe's assistance three months ...
Lexington Township is located in McLean County, Illinois. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,399 and it contained 1,005 housing units. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,399 and it contained 1,005 housing units.