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The Lancaster Commercial Historic District is a registered historic district located in Lancaster, Kentucky that was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [ 1 ] It includes the Garrard County Courthouse, built in 1868, which was the third-built courthouse of the area.
Lancaster is located west of the center of Garrard County. U.S. Route 27 passes through the city, leading north 35 miles (56 km) to Lexington and south 39 miles (63 km) to Somerset. Kentucky Route 52 crosses US 27 in the center of Lancaster, leading east and northeast 23 miles (37 km) to Richmond, and west 11 miles (18 km) to Danville.
Home to the family of famed Southern Belle Sallie Ward and Kentucky's Confederate Governor George Johnson. 71000352 White Hall: March 11, 1971: Richmond: Madison: 84001824 Anderson-Smith House: March 1, 1984: Paducah: McCracken: Serves as an official Kentucky Welcome Center and houses the furniture of Vice-President Alben Barkley. Also known as ...
Garrard County (/ ˈ ɡ ær ər d / GARR-ərd) is a county located east-central Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 16,953. [1] Its county seat is Lancaster. [2] The county was formed in 1796 and was named for James Garrard, Governor of Kentucky from 1796 to 1804. [3]
The first recorded use of the word lavender as a color term in English was in 1705. [5]Originally, the name lavender only applied to flowers. By 1930, the book A Dictionary of Color [6] identified three major shades of lavender—[floral] lavender, lavender gray, and lavender blue, and in addition a fourth shade of lavender called old lavender (a darker lavender gray) (all four of these shades ...
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Garrard County: 079: Lancaster: 1796: Madison County, Lincoln County, and Mercer County: James Garrard, second Governor of Kentucky (1796–1804) 17,829: 231 sq mi (598 km 2) Grant County: 081: Williamstown: 1820: Pendleton County: Samuel Grant (1762–89 or 94), John Grant (1754–1826), and Squire Grant (1764–1833), three of the county's ...
Location of Clark County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clark County, Kentucky. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...