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2. 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.

3. 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 ...

4. List of historic houses in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Waveland ( Danville) – Home of Willis Green, built 1797. White Hall ( Richmond) – Home of Cassius Marcellus Clay, cousin of Henry Clay; built 1799. Wickland ( Bardstown) – Home of two governors of Kentucky and one Governor of Louisiana; built 1813. Wickland ( Shelbyville) – Classical Revival mansion; built 1901.

5. 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 ...

6. 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.

7. Cheapside Park - Wikipedia

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   Cheapside Park was a block in downtown Lexington, Kentucky between Upper Street and Mill Street. Cheapside, originally Public Square, was the town's main marketplace in the nineteenth century and included a large slave market before the Civil War . Cheapside Park played a prominent role in the slave trade, many enslaved people sold here were ...