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John Hunt Morgan Memorial and John C. Breckinridge Memorial moved to Lexington Cemetery July, 2018. [3] ... 367-369 W. Short St. and 142 N. Broadway
Headstones of American actor and comedian James Albert Varney Jr., best known for his comedic role as Ernest P. Worrell, at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Ky on May 9, 2024. Varney was born in ...
Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky.. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the 1833 cholera epidemic in the area.
[citation needed] The Lexington Herald-Leader published a list of the victims with short biographies. [34] The Flight 5191 Memorial Commission was established shortly after the crash to create an appropriate memorial for the victims, first responders and community. The commission selected the University of Kentucky Arboretum as its memorial site.
The memorial was one of 60 different Civil War properties in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places on the same day, July 17, 1997. Three other properties listed that day are also located in Lexington: the John C. Breckinridge Memorial, which is on the other side of the same block as the Morgan Memorial, and the Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington and the Ladies ...
In November 2017, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Council approved an agreement to relocate the Breckinridge and Morgan statues to the Lexington Cemetery. [8] The relocation was completed in July 2018. [9] An endowment, funded by private donations, covered the cost of removal, and will pay for future maintenance and security. [10]
The Ladies Memorial and Monument Association was founded by Mary Cyrene Burch Breckinridge, the wife of John C. Breckinridge, on May 26, 1869, after she saw the unveiling of the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Kentucky. After six years of fund raising the memorial was dedicated on May 26, 1875. [3]
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