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This is a list of properties and historic districts in Kentucky that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are listings in all of Kentucky's 120 counties . The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by ...
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 locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
This list of cemeteries in Kentucky includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Fayette County—originally Fayette County, Virginia—was established by the Virginia General Assembly in June 1780, when it abolished and subdivided Kentucky County into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln. Together, these counties and those set off from them later in that decade separated from Virginia in 1792 to become the ...
Kentucky County: Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States (1801–09) 772,144: 385 sq mi (997 km 2) Jessamine County: 113: Nicholasville: 1798: Fayette County: Jessamine Creek, which contains a set of rapids that are the county's most well known natural feature 55,017: 173 sq mi (448 km 2) Johnson County: 115: Paintsville: 1843
Athens (locally / ˈ eɪ θ ən z / AY-thənz) is a small unincorporated village in Fayette County to the east of Interstate 75 in Kentucky in the United States.. First settled in 1786 as the community of Cross Plains, [2] the town was chartered as Athens in 1826 [3] and had its own post office from that time until 1906. [4]
The preeminent Frank Lloyd Wright home, constructed over a waterfall in 1937, and named by the Smithsonian as one of the "Top 28 Places to Visit Before You Die." 23: Fayette-Springs Hotel: Fayette-Springs Hotel: November 27, 1995 : U.S. Route 40, approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) east of Chalk Hill
Longview Farm House – A Italianate and Greek Revival style home; built 1851; Martin Castle (Fayette County) – European-inspired castle built by Rex and Caroline Martin. Currently serves as a hotel; built 1969 [4] Mary Todd Lincoln House – Home of former first lady, Mary Todd Lincoln; built c. 1803