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2. African-American neighborhoods in Lexington, Kentucky

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   Brucetown was an African-American neighborhood located in Lexington, Kentucky that was established in 1865. The community was formed by W. W. Bruce, who parceled and provided the land for his newly freed slaves, which had become employed by him for hemp manufacturing after the Civil War. [6] Adjacent to Bruce's hemp factory, the land is now ...

3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette ...

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   Location of Fayette County in Kentucky. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Kentucky.. 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.

4. Kinkeadtown - Wikipedia

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   Kinkeadtown. Coordinates: 38°02′55″N. Kinkeadtown is a historically African American section of Lexington, Kentucky. It was established near the home of George Blackburn Kinkead (former Secretary of State of Kentucky ), several years after the American Civil War. The land was subdivided by Kinkead in 1870 and sold exclusively to African ...

5. Ashland (Henry Clay estate) - Wikipedia

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   Ashland (Henry Clay estate) /  38.02861°N 84.48000°W  / 38.02861; -84.48000. Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by enslaved African Americans, and enslaved people grew and ...

6. Garden Springs, Lexington - Wikipedia

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   Garden Springs, Lexington. Coordinates: 38.026°N 84.547°W. Garden Springs is a neighborhood in Southwestern Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are Georgian Way to the west, Lane Allen Road to the north, Harrodsburg Road to the east, and New Circle Road to the south. Turfland Mall and the Lexington campus of Sullivan University ...

7. Cityscape of Lexington, Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Cityscape of Lexington, Kentucky. A portion of downtown Lexington in 2006. Kincaid Towers along Vine Street. The urban development patterns of Lexington, Kentucky, confined within an urban growth boundary protecting its famed horse farms, include greenbelts and expanses of land between it and the surrounding towns.