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Anyone with information should call the Lexington Police Department at 859-258-3600. Herald-Leader staff writer Taylor Six contributed to this report. Show comments
The Herald-Leader was created by a 1983 merger of the Lexington Herald and the Lexington Leader. The story of the Herald begins in 1870 with a paper known as the Lexington Daily Press. In 1895, a descendant of that paper was first published as the Morning Herald, later to be renamed the Lexington Herald in 1905.
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 ...
A Lexington man was found dead in his home on Oak Ridge Lane in Lexington County on Saturday, July 20, according to a news release from the coroner’s office .
St. Stephen's Lutheran Church was originally built in 1831 as the first church in the Lexington community. This church was also the first in this community to have a balcony. In 1865, the building was one of many in the state to be burned down by Sherman's Union forces during The Carolinas Campaign of the United States Civil War. [7]
Belle Brezing was born Mary Belle Cox, the illegitimate daughter of Sarah Ann Cox.Sarah Cox was a dressmaker who also worked part-time as a prostitute. Sarah Cox subsequently married George Brezing, a saloon operative, grocer and alcoholic, in 1861, [3] whose name Belle adopted.
Lexington is the county seat of Davidson County, North Carolina, United States.As of the 2020 census, the town had a population of 19,632. [4] It is located in central North Carolina, 20 miles (32 km) south of Winston-Salem.
University Chapel (formerly Lee Chapel) of Washington and Lee University is a National Historic Landmark in Lexington, Virginia.It was constructed during 1867–68 at the request of Robert E. Lee, who was president of the school (then known as Washington College), and after whom the university is, in part, named.