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1 mile (1.6 km) east of Lexington on Squires Rd. off U.S. Route 421: Lexington: 175: Woodlands Historic District: Woodlands Historic District: August 18, 1983 : Roughly bounded by Main and High Sts., Ashland and Woodland Aves.
Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy Railroad begins operating. [citation needed] Hocker Female College established. [16] Cemetery of the Union Benevolent Society No. 2 in use. 1870 Lexington Herald-Leader|Lexington Daily Press begins publication. [4] Odd Fellows Temple built. 1872 – First Presbyterian Church built. [9] 1873
The building was opened as a museum center in October 2003 under a Memorandum of Understanding between the Lexington-Fayette Urban-County Government (Lexington, Ky.) and the Commonwealth of Kentucky that stipulated the municipal government would spend a "minimum $1,000,000" to renovate the Old Fayette County Courthouse as the Lexington History Museum—an amount that was never fulfilled.
Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays. Ashland is a registered National Historic Landmark ...
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.
The Palmer Pharmacy was once owned by Dr. Zirl Palmer, who opened the first Black-owned Rexall pharmacy in the country in Lexington. The city of Lexington and a nonprofit are saving this historic ...
A downtown Lexington bar building has changed hands again. And the new owner has lots of plans for the high-profile location. The historic building at 249 W. Short St., which is across the street ...
The Society's offices are located at the restored Lexington Depot, located at 13 Depot Square in Lexington Centre. The Society also maintains an extensive collection of artifacts and archives. Many questions about Lexington history can be answered through research in the Society's Archives, a rich repository of documents, maps, photographs, and ...