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2. Waveland State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. 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 ...

4. 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.

5. 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 ...

6. Woodward Heights, Lexington - Wikipedia

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   Woodward Heights, Lexington. /  38.05000°N 84.50694°W  / 38.05000; -84.50694. Woodward Heights is a neighborhood and historic district located immediately west of downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It is bounded by Maxwell Street and the Pleasant Green Hill neighborhood to the southwest, by the parking lot for Rupp Arena to the southeast, by ...

7. Lexington, Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Lexington is the second-most-populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky (after Louisville), and the 60th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Fayette County. By land area, it is the country's 30th-largest city. Lexington is known as the "Horse Capital of the World". It is within the state's Bluegrass region.