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One of the areas for researchers is the Central Library's Kentucky Room, which houses Kentucky census records and numerous other genealogy and local history resources. It also contains microfilm of the Lexington Herald-Leader, as well as its forerunners, the Lexington Herald and the Lexington Leader, along with other local newspapers.
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] 1905 – Lexington Public Library opens. 1907 – Lexington Union Station opens. [31] 1908 – College of Law, State University of Kentucky established. [16] 1910 – Population: 35,099 ...
The Gratz Park Historic District consists of 16 contributing buildings including the Hunt-Morgan House, the Bodley-Bullock House, the original Carnegie Library, which now houses the Carnegie Center for Literature and Learning, and several other private residences. Gratz Park occupies a tract of land that was established in 1781 outside the ...
But here in Lexington, a series of serendipitous events, including a Lexington Public Library exhibit on Lexington’s redlining, a community read-along of one of the most important books about ...
Library employee Clarissa Thomas saw the Undesign exhibit in Dayton, Ohio, and started working on bringing a similar exhibit to Lexington, with the help of the Lexington Public Library Foundation.
It was 1979, and he’d been trying to do some research at the Lexington Public Library, which at the time had its main branch near Gratz Park, in the building that is now the Carnegie Center for ...
It is one of 29 sites on a National Park Service-recommended list of places to visit in Lexington, "Lexington, Kentucky: Athens of the West, a National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary. [3] The building is a 1906-built Classical Revival-style Carnegie library, at the south end of Gratz Park, designed by architect Herman L. Rowe.
I find it not coincidental that the Lexington Public Library’s featured exhibit this fall was “Undesign the Redline” —a historical examination of redlining in our community and nation ...