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Location of Fayette County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Kentucky.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County, Kentucky, United States.
The Black Thursday bushfires were a devastating series of fires that swept the Port Phillip District (now the state of Victoria) in Australia, on 6 February 1851, burning up 5 million hectares (12 million acres; 50,000 square kilometres; 19,000 square miles), or about a quarter of the state's area.
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.
Lexington Herald-Leader|Lexington Daily Press begins publication. [4] Odd Fellows Temple built. 1872 – First Presbyterian Church built. [9] 1873 Smith Business College established. [16] Trotting Track constructed by Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association. [9] 1874 Lexington Railway Company streetcars in operation. Population: 13,600. [1]
The "Plan of Cincinnati" from the 1878 Encyclopaedia Britannica, showing the layout of downtown Covington and Newport to the south. In 1814, John Gano, Richard Gano, and Thomas Carneal purchased 150 acres (0.6 km 2) on the west side of the Licking River at its confluence with the Ohio River, referred to as "the Point," from Thomas Kennedy for $50,000.
Masterson Station is a neighborhood in northwestern Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are Masterson Station Park on the west, Leestown Road to the south, Greendale Road to the east, and Spurr Road to the north. [1]
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.
Woodhill is a neighborhood in southeast Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are Richmond Road to the west, New Circle Road to the north, Palumbo Drive to the east, and Man o' War Boulevard to the south.