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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is the county seat for Fayette County
Lexington is in Fayette County
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On Newtown Pike close to Booker Street, on the right when traveling north.
The second State Mental Hospital built in the U.S. Established by legislative act of Dec. 4, 1822, which named commissioners to buy and operate it in Fayette County. They acquired The Fayette Hospital organized in 1816. "The Lunatic Asylum" opened . . . — — Map (db m35844) HM
On Church Street west of North Limestone Street, on the right when traveling west.
Before the Civil War, black Lexingtonians established private schools in churches and educated missionaries who were sent around the world. After 1865, with the support of the Freedmen's Bureau, four free schools for black students were established. . . . — — Map (db m137045) HM
On Market Street, 0 miles north of Church St., on the right when traveling north.
First Episcopal church in Ky., founded in 1796. Present Gothic structure, completed in 1848, was built by John McMurtry. Thomas Lewinski, architect. The Rev. James Moore was first rector and first president of Transylvania Univ. The Diocese of Ky. . . . — — Map (db m134601) HM
On North Mill Street, 0.1 miles south of West 2nd Street, on the left when traveling south.
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Founded 1784. Oldest congregation in continuous existence in city. Founders were hunting party members who selected city’s site and named it Lexington in honor of first battle of the American Revolution. First pastor Adam Rankin’s . . . — — Map (db m59162) HM
On North Mill Street, 0.1 miles south of West 2nd Street, on the left when traveling south.
Erected 1803-04, this is the only office standing used by Clay; he occupied it from 1804 until ca. 1810. During these significant years in his career, Clay was elected to successive terms in legislature and to unexpired terms in the United States . . . — — Map (db m59165) HM
On North Mill Street, 0.1 miles north of West 2nd. Street, on the right when traveling south.
1814 Federal-style home, named Hopemont, retains original architectural features, including a cantilevered staircase & fanlight window. Saved from demolition by the Blue Grass Trust in 1955. Built by John Wesley Hunt (1773-1849), a . . . — — Map (db m59107) HM
On Market Street, 0.1 miles west of West 3rd. Street, on the left when traveling east.
This Transylvania honor graduate, who later taught there, won an international audience with his nostalgic stories and novels of Bluegrass region. Allen was born near Lexington. By 1893, after his work became popular, he moved to New York City. He . . . — — Map (db m59083) HM
Lexington Public Library
First library west of the Alleghenies was est. in Lex. in 1795 as a subscription library. The Women's Club of Central Ky. worked for a free public library, and, in 1902, Andrew Carnegie gave $60,000 to build Lex. . . . — — Map (db m35601) HM
On North Mill Street at West 2nd Street, on the right when traveling south on North Mill Street.
Home of John Hunt Morgan
"Thunderbolt of the Confederacy"
Born Huntsville, Ala. 6-1-1825
Killed Greeneville, Tenn. 9-4-1864
Lieutenant - Kentucky Volunteers in Mexican War 1846-1847 Major General - C.S.A., 1861-1864. — — Map (db m29410) HM
Samuel Brown, M.D. (1769 - 1830). This building was office of Dr. Samuel Brown, first professor of chemistry, anatomy and surgery at Transylvania Medical School. He was a pioneer in cowpox vaccination against smallpox and introduced it in . . . — — Map (db m95971) HM
On North Mill Street north of Church Street, on the right when traveling north.
This site was once the law office of prominent national politician Henry Clay. In the early 19th century, one of his enslaved, Charlotte Dupuy (do-pea), sued Clay for the freedom of herself and her children.
A previous owner had promised to . . . — — Map (db m137047) HM
On Market Street, 0.1 miles south of West 3rd Street, on the left when traveling north.
This building was one of two dependencies for Transylvania University's elaborate, three-storied 1816 structure designed by Lexington architect Matthew Kennedy. Main building burned in 1829. Nine-bayed, it had center pavilion of 5 bays surmounted by . . . — — Map (db m59101) HM
On Grosvenor Avenue south of Rose Street, on the right when traveling south.
Built for Senator John and Eliza Pope. Designed by B. H. Latrobe (1764-1820), father of American architectural profession and designer to Thomas Jefferson. The Pope Villa has hidden first-story services, with rotunda and major rooms on second story. . . . — — Map (db m169870) HM
On West Maxwell Street east of South Mill Street, on the left when traveling east.
Mary Desha, one of four founders
of the Daughters of the American
Revolution in 1890, taught public
school here, 1875-85. Designer of
society's seal. Taught in Alaska
schools, returned to Washington,
successfully advocated . . . — — Map (db m169869) HM
On High Street (State Road 1974) at Limestone Street, on the left when traveling west on High Street.
For three years (1821-1824) while a student at Transylvania University Jefferson Davis (afterwards President of Southern Confederacy) lived here with Joseph Ficklin then Postmaster of Lexington. — — Map (db m35839) HM
On South Limestone north of Campus Drive, on the right when traveling north.
Keeneland Hall was named after the
Keeneland Foundation. Designed by
architects Frankel and Curtis of
Lexington, Keeneland Hall was a
modified Georgian structure. It had
four stories, a basement, and pairs of
double rooms with . . . — — Map (db m169896) HM
On West High Street (Kentucky Route 1974) at South Upper Street, on the left when traveling east on West High Street.
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Methodism in Lexington
Revs. James Haw and Benjamin Ogden were sent in 1786 to Ky. to organize Methodists. In 1789, Rev. Francis Poythress established the Lexington Society of Methodists, now the First United Methodist . . . — — Map (db m70302) HM
On South Mill Street south of West High Street, on the right when traveling south.
Built in 1784 for Adam Rankin, minister of Lexington's pioneer Presbyterian Church. Samuel D. McCullough, born here in 1803, was a teacher, astronomer, antiquarian and maker of world-famous Burrowes mustard. In 1971, the Blue Grass Trust for . . . — — Map (db m169860) HM
On Avenue of Champions south of South Limestone, on the right when traveling north.
Sarah Bennett Holmes
Holmes Hall was dedicated on May
25, 1958 and named for Sarah
Bennett Holmes, who served as the
University of Kentucky Dean of
Women from 1942 to 1957. In
addition to her longstanding service
to the University, . . . — — Map (db m169895) HM
On South Limestone north of West Maxwell Street, on the left when traveling north.
This sign sits in the South Hill neighborhood, where five homes still stand with roots to Lexington's freed-black community. In this neighborhood. African Americans once lived alongside whites.
Although restricted in their rights, freedmen . . . — — Map (db m202850) HM
On Paris Pike (U.S. 27) west of Kingston Road, on the right when traveling west.
Home of the Wildcat rollercoaster, Joyland Railroad, a midway, Fayette Co.'s first public swimming pool & a dance casino featuring jazz and big bands like Duke Ellington & Artie Shaw, as well as local & regional entertainers. The segregated park . . . — — Map (db m202879) HM
On Paris Pike (U.S. 27/68) at Rogers Road, on the right when traveling west on Paris Pike.
Settled by Robert Patterson and companions in 1779. Major frontier town. Home of Henry Clay, Mary Todd, John Breckinridge, and of Transylvania College of the Bible, and University of Kentucky. — — Map (db m202880) HM
On Tates Creek Road (Kentucky Route 1974) at Dove Run Road, on the right when traveling south on Tates Creek Road. Reported missing.
David R. Atchison born, 1807, in Frogtown, 2Ľ miles S.W. Graduated, Transylvania Univ., 1825. Admitted to Ky. bar, 1829. Moved to Mo., 1830. U.S. Senator, 1843-55. As Pres. pro tem he became President of U.S., noon Sun., Mar. 4, 1849, end of Polk's . . . — — Map (db m202812) HM
On East Short Street at North Martin Luther King Boulevard, on the left when traveling east on East Short Street.
On this site a convention of delegates from the several Masonic lodges in the state of Kentucky met at Masons' Hall in the town of Lexington on Monday, the 8th day of September, 1800, to establish the Grand Lodge of Kentucky, Free and Accepted . . . — — Map (db m202839) HM
On East 3rd Street west of Elm Tree Lane, on the left when traveling east.
Grave of George Nicholas
1754-1799
Revolutionary soldier
Virginia House of Delegates
Father of Kentucky Constitution
First Kentucky Attorney General
Professor of Law at Transylvania University — — Map (db m61134) HM
On Elm Tree Lane at East Third Street, on the right when traveling south on Elm Tree Lane.
Deweese (Dewees) St. Neighborhood
Segregation limited the housing options of African Americans. Redlining and discriminatory real estate policies forced black Lexingtonians to live in "shotgun" houses built close together. By the late 19th . . . — — Map (db m169747) HM
On East Main Street at South Martin Luther King Boulevard, on the left when traveling west on East Main Street.
On July 8, 1999, Fayette County outlawed discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity in housing, employment, and public accommodations. This groundbreaking, county-wide ordinance was the first in Kentucky to provide these . . . — — Map (db m136945) HM
On East Main Street (U.S. 421) at Esplanade, on the left when traveling west on East Main Street.
Oldest continuous LGBTQ gathering place in Kentucky, and among the oldest in the U.S. LGBTQ patrons discreetly congregated here as early as 1939. In 1963 The Gilded Cage bar opened, run by gay men John Hill and Estel Wilson. Patrons enjoyed same . . . — — Map (db m179398) HM
On East Main Street (U.S. 421, 60) at South Limestone Street, on the left when traveling west on East Main Street.
William Clark in Lexington. Clark, coleader of the 1803-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition, and his family spent October 30, 1809, at Lexington's Traveler's Hall, operated by Cuthbert Banks. Clark also visited expedition member George Shannon, . . . — — Map (db m179366) HM
On Deweese Street at East Short Street, on the right when traveling west on Deweese Street.
Enslaved Peter "Old Captain" Durrett moved to Lexington with his wife and began holding services in his cabin at Maxwell Spring in 1790. This site once housed the First African Baptist Church, built by the congregation in 1856.
The Church became . . . — — Map (db m169742) HM
On East Main Street (U.S. 25, 421) 0.2 miles west of Martin Luther King Boulevard, on the left when traveling west.
Built on this site in 1842. The 16-day Campbell-Rice Debate on Christian baptism, etc., was held here Nov. 1843, Hon. Henry Clay, presiding. — — Map (db m179556) HM
On Deweese Street south of Elm Tree Lane, on the left when traveling south.
Mammoth Insurance Co.
Founded 1915 in Louisville, Mammoth Life and Accident Ins. Co. opened district office at 149 Deweese. It offered employment opportunities and fair rates to African American
community. At its peak, Mammoth had 750 . . . — — Map (db m169744) HM
On East Short Street at North Martin Luther King Boulevard, on the left when traveling east on East Short Street.
This site was purchased by Lexington Lodge of Ancient Masons in December, 1795. The two-story brick Masons Hall completed in 1796, and destroyed by fire in 1819. Third Masons Hall was erected in 1841. The Grand Lodge removed to Louisville in 1859. . . . — — Map (db m202842) HM
On Elm Tree Lane at East Third Street, on the right when traveling south on Elm Tree Lane.
Kentucky Clinic North was established by the University of Kentucky in 1996 to provide primary care in a medically underserved area of downtown Lexington The community-oriented clinic operated at a site on Third Street until this facility opened in . . . — — Map (db m169746) HM
On Boiling Springs Drive at Old Leestown Road, in the median on Boiling Springs Drive.
Halley Field, Lexington's first municipal airport, was located on Meadowthorpe Farm, owned at the time by Dr. Samuel Halley. In use since 1921, it officially opened May 28, 1927 and was dedicated June 11 of that same year. World-famous aviator Col. . . . — — Map (db m136940) HM
On Cooper Drive, on the right when traveling east.
Kentucky Educational Television
Kentucky's statewide public television network began broadcasting Sept. 23, 1968. Initially airing weekdays during school hours, KET grew to become one of the largest
public television networks in the nation, . . . — — Map (db m169911) HM
On North Broadway at West 3rd Street, on the right when traveling north on North Broadway.
Architects Shryock
"Best known surname in Kentucky architecture is Shryock." Family home, erected by Matthias Shryock (1774-1833), here. Designed first Episcopal church in city, 1814, and Mary Todd Lincoln home on W. Main. Son, . . . — — Map (db m136935) HM
On 2nd. Street east of Bruce Street, on the right when traveling west.
Built circa 1866, this house was occupied by John C. Breckinridge in 1874-1875. The former U.S. senator and youngest U.S. vice-president was also a Confederate general and secretary of war. After exile, he returned to Lexington in 1869 and resumed . . . — — Map (db m57476) HM
On West 3rd Street west of North Mill Street, on the right when traveling west.
Col. Robert Patterson (1753-1827)
A large landholder, Patterson took part in founding Lexington, Cincinnati and Dayton. Chose site of Lexington, helped erect fort, April 1779, and laid off town; on Board of Trustees for many years. He . . . — — Map (db m61080) HM
One of the three original counties formed when Kentucky Co., Virginia, was divided by Va. Act in 1780. Included area north and east of Ky. River, 37 persent-day counties and parts of 7 others. Reduced to its present boundaries by 1799.
Named . . . — — Map (db m14016) HM
The Men of Fayette County who gave their lives in Service During the World War.
[First column]
Fred M. Blakeman •
Don Mullis Burris •
Marshall Corum •
Harry W. Cunningham •
Johnson Clay Eales •
Clarence R. Gaugh •
Sydney . . . — — Map (db m14090) HM
On West 4th Street north of Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling north.
In 1894, a group of local women established the House of Mercy on this site to provide a home for single pregnant women. In 1921 the home became affiliated with Florence Crittenton Homes, founded by Charles Crittenton in memory of his daughter. . . . — — Map (db m169840) HM
On North Limestone Street at East Short Street, on the right when traveling north on North Limestone Street.
From Enslaved to Community Activist
Education Gave the Jacksons a Step Up
Jordan C. Jackson, Jr. was born enslaved in Lexington. Denied an education, he taught himself to read and write, eventually becoming a successful businessman . . . — — Map (db m137309) HM
On West Second Street at Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling west on West Second Street.
From Enslaved to the Presidency
Finding Freedom in Africa
This site was originally part of the Glendower Estate, where Alfred Francis Russell was born enslaved in 1817. From these humble beginnings, he rose to become president . . . — — Map (db m137310) HM
On North Limestone at Rand Avenue, on the left when traveling east on North Limestone.
Pushing for equal rights for women
This home belonged to Dr. Mary Ellen Britton, the first African American woman licensed to practice medicine in Lexington (1903). Her medical practice, which specialized in electro- and hydrotherapy, was . . . — — Map (db m218205) HM
On Hampton Court north of West 3rd Street, in the median.
Attorney Charles H. Stoll began development in 1907 after orphan asylum razed. Built first luxury apartment building in Lexington known as "Stoll Flats” #310. Court named for Hampton Halley Lisle, Stoll's son-in-law. In 1909, Col. Milton Young, . . . — — Map (db m169846) HM
On North Upper Street at West 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south on North Upper Street.
Lewis and Clark in Kentucky
George Shannon
George Shannon, youngest member of the 1803-06 Lewis & Clark Expedition, studied at Transylvania Univ. and practiced law in Lexington. His office was in Jordan’s Row on Upper Street. He married . . . — — Map (db m136937) HM
On North Limestone Street at West Short Street, on the left when traveling north on North Limestone Street.
Lexington's Long History with Slavery
A Slave Jail Stood Here
This site was once one of the city's largest slave jails—Megowan's. For more than 20 years, Thomas Megowan held enslaved individuals in his jail until he had enough . . . — — Map (db m137305) HM
Near West 3rd Street, near North Upper Street, on the right when traveling west.
Old Morrison
An early Greek Revival design by Kentucky architect Gideon Shryock. Trustee and teacher Henry Clay guided construction supported by bequest of Col. James Morrison. Work on building slowed by cholera epidemic of 1833. Dedication . . . — — Map (db m136933) HM
On North Upper Street south of West 6th Street, on the right when traveling south.
The first school for black Kentuckians to be accredited by the Southern Association of
Colleges and Secondary Schools. One of only eight public high schools in the thirteen southern states to secure this standing in 1930.
Presented by . . . — — Map (db m169839) HM
On North Limestone west of Templeman Street, on the right when traveling east.
Sayre Female Institute
On Nov. 1, 1854, David A. Sayre founded a school for women at this site named Transylvania Female Institute. School renamed Sayre Female Institute in 1855; boys admitted to the primary Dept. in 1876. School renamed . . . — — Map (db m169853) HM
On West 2nd Street at North Broadway Street (U.S. 27 & 68), on the right when traveling west on West 2nd Street.
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Site of the world-renowned Medical Hall of Transylvania University. Erected 1839 and dedicated November 2, 1840. Massive building of Grecian architecture with facilities not surpassed at that time by any school in America or . . . — — Map (db m57475) HM
On Mill Street at Short Street, on the right when traveling north on Mill Street.
On this site, 1810-1838, was shop of Asa Blanchard, the most noted of Kentucky's silversmiths. Blanchard silver was as prized in Kentucky as that of Paul Revere in New England. Among his customers were the most prominent families in the Bluegrass. A . . . — — Map (db m68131) HM
On West Short Street at North Upper Street on West Short Street.
Slavery in Fayette Co.
On the N.E. corner of the Fayette County Courthouse lawn stood the whipping post established in 1847 to punish slaves for such offenses as being on the streets after 7 p.m. Fayette Co. was one of the largest slave-holding . . . — — Map (db m16411) HM
On West Short Street at Algonquin Street, on the left when traveling south on West Short Street.
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The cornerstone was laid on Nov. 12,1865 and church consecrated by the Rt. Rev. G.A. Carroll, Bishop of Covington, on Oct. 18, 1868.
The remains of the first pastor, Fr. Bekkers, are interred in a vault in the narthex of the . . . — — Map (db m119120) HM
On North Broadway Street (U.S. 27 & 68) north of West 2nd Street, on the right when traveling north.
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Thomas Hunt Morgan
Winner of 1933 Nobel Prize was born in Hunt-Morgan house, 1866; grew up here. A nephew of John Hunt Morgan, he attended State College of Ky. (Univ. of Ky.). Taught at Columbia Univ. and there, . . . — — Map (db m57474) HM
On West Third Street at Blackburn Avenue on West Third Street.
Boyhood home of prominent American historical painter and portraitist. Noble (1835-1907) was first Director of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He studied in Louisville under Samuel W. Price, in France under Thomas Couture, and at the Munich Academy. . . . — — Map (db m136931) HM
On West 3rd. Street, 0.1 miles west of Market Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported missing.
Pioneer in higher education in Kentucky and west. Founded by The Commonwealth of Virginia, 1780. Located in Lexington since 1789 — — Map (db m59049) HM
(Front): John Cabell Breckinridge, 1821-75, one of four Kentuckians - more than any state, except New York - who were U.S. Vice Presidents. Others were Adlai E. Stevenson, Richard M. Johnson, and Alben W. Barkley. In U.S. Congress, 1851-55. . . . — — Map (db m130963) HM
On East Third Street north of Elm Tree Lane, on the right when traveling north.
Old Episcopal Burying Ground
Purchased in 1832 by Christ Church trustees to serve its members, it is among the oldest graveyards in Lexington. Some 600 people were buried here between 1833-1879, including over 50 Christ Church members who . . . — — Map (db m169748) HM
On Walnut Hill Road, 0.1 miles west of Old Richmond Road (U.S. 25/421), on the right when traveling west.
General Levi Todd and the Reverend
James Crawford were instrumental
in the founding of Walnut Hill
Presbyterian Church. Crawford
organized church in 1785 on land
given by Todd, one of founders of
Lexington. First place of worship
was a log . . . — — Map (db m169731) HM
On Bowman Mill Road, on the right when traveling north.
This antebellum Greek Revival Home was part of Bowman estate. Col. Abraham Bowman commanded 8th Va. Regt. in Revolution. Behind house was Todd's Station, built 1779 by Levi Todd, grandfather of Mary Todd Lincoln and Emilie Todd Helm. Mrs. Helm, wife . . . — — Map (db m14009) HM
On West Maxwell Street (U.S. 60) at Patterson Street, on the right when traveling east on West Maxwell Street.
The land upon which Pleasant Green Baptist Church stands was conveyed in 1822 by Dr. Frederick Ridgely, a white surgeon in Lexington, to trustees Harry Quills, Benjamin Admon, and Solomon Walker, all slaves, for purpose of erecting an African . . . — — Map (db m68132) HM
On West High Street (U.S. 60), on the right when traveling east.
Extensive earthworks with ditch, drawbridges and magazine were constructed here by Federal forces after the Battle of "Ashland" May, 1862. — — Map (db m130222) HM
On Parkers Mill Road (Kentucky Route 1968) north of Chinquapin Lane, on the left when traveling north.
In this valley is a deep spring
known as the Blue Hole. It was
discovered in 1775 by William
McConnell who built a cabin and
later traded the 400-acre claim
to Simon Kenton, who was known
as Simon Butler at that time.
Joseph Frazer then . . . — — Map (db m170022) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 25, 421) at Tucker Street, on the left when traveling west on West Main Street.
Built in 1806 as an inn. Became home of politician & businessman Robert S. Todd in 1832. Mary Todd, his daughter, born in Lexington on Dec. 13, 1818, moved to IL in 1839. There, she met & married Abraham Lincoln. They visited here in fall of 1847. . . . — — Map (db m61002) HM
On West Main Street (Route 421, 25) at Felix Street, on the right when traveling west on West Main Street.
Lexington's first burial ground was on this site, part of “first hill” on route from fort toward Georgetown. In 1781, this square was set aside by town trustees for house of worship and graveyard. The cemetery was used until end of . . . — — Map (db m58558) HM
On West Main Street (U.S. 421, 25) 0.2 miles west of Algonquin Street, on the left when traveling west.
Under Vine Street flows the Town Branch of Elkhorn, the stream upon whose banks Lexington was established in 1779. Used in the early days to bring merchandise to Lexington from Ohio River. On Town Branch was launched Edward West's steamboat in 1793. . . . — — Map (db m58557) HM
On Main Street (U.S. 25, 421) west of Jefferson Street (Kentucky Route 1928), on the left when traveling west.
Born in Lexington, son of Henry A. Tandy, respected African American contractor. Attended the Chandler School, Tuskegee Institute, Cornell Univ. 1st registered black architect in New York State, where he built landmark homes & buildings. A founder . . . — — Map (db m61032) HM
On Madison Place south of West High Street (U.S. 60), on the right when traveling south.
Major Madison C. Johnson, a
lawyer and friend of Henry Clay,
commissioned Lexington architect
John McMurtry to construct Botherum
in 1851. The house is a combination
of Greek and Gothic Revival styles,
resulting in a unique cottage. It . . . — — Map (db m169867) HM
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