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A portion of Lexington’s popular Legacy Trail will soon go under a major, busy Lexington street. As part of the widening of Newtown Pike between New Circle Road and Interstate 75/Interstate 64 ...
August 8, 2024 at 10:17 AM. Coldstream Park is tucked into the University of Kentucky’s Coldstream Research Park near Interstate 75 and Interstate 64. Many in Lexington have driven by the 224 ...
Lafayette left France on the American merchant vessel Cadmus, on July 13, 1824, and his tour began on August 15, 1824, when he arrived at Staten Island, New York.He toured the Northern and Eastern United States in the fall of 1824, including stops at Monticello to visit Thomas Jefferson and Washington, D.C., where he was received at the White House by President James Monroe.
Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area. / 36.85694°N 88.07472°W / 36.85694; -88.07472. Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280-acre national recreation area (69,310 ha) in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. It was designated as a national recreation area in 1963 ...
Called the Town Branch Commons, the more than 2-mile trail through downtown Lexington was more than a decade in the making. It connects two key trail systems.
The Big Bone Lick Historical Association was formed in 1953, and in 1956 purchased 16.66 acres of land, which they deeded to the Kentucky State Commissioner for conservation. In December 1960, the Kentucky Department of Parks began constructing picnic areas, a shelter, and a parking lot. By 1962, the purchase of additional land brought the size ...
Lexington (March 17, 1850 – July 1, 1875) was a United States Thoroughbred race horse who won six of his seven race starts. Perhaps his greatest fame, however, came as the most successful sire of the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the leading sire in North America 16 times, and broodmare sire of many notable racehorses.
August 12, 1971. Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century.