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City or town Description 1: Augustus Hall House: July 12, 1978 (#78001316) August 19, 1980: 165 Barr St. Lexington: Demolished on August 4, 1979 [7] 2: Hathaway Houses: November 2, 1978 (#78001317) December 7, 1981: 760-766 Pine St. Lexington: Destroyed by fire May 8, 1980. [8] 3: West High Street Historic District: July 10, 1969 (#69000366)
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]
The Estill Steam Furnace, a blast furnace was established in about 1830. [2] A post office was established in the community in 1857, and named for the Estill Steam Furnace. This was shortened to Furnace in 1882. [3] The post office was discontinued in 1975. [4]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Boyle County, Kentucky, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
“Undesign the Red Line” will open at the Lexington Central Library on Main Street on Sept. 18. The exhibit will probably be up through November. For more information, contact Kelli Parmley at ...
The Transylvania campus was moved across Third Street to its present location. At the northern edge of the park is the "Fountain of Youth," built in memory of Lexington author James Lane Allen using proceeds willed to the city by Allen. The park was deeded to the city of Lexington during the mid-20th century and is still used as a public park ...
By Lexington, Brooks does not mean our fair city, but the horse named for it, Lexington, one of the most famous race horses and sires of all time. She was at a lunch near her home in Massachusetts ...
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- Women's right to vote in school board elections in Lexington, Covington and Newport (Kentucky's second-class cities) was revoked by the Kentucky General Assembly.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. [30]