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The Lexington History Center once housed several independent history museums in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It was located in the former Fayette County Courthouse until 2012 when the city closed the building for renovation. [1] Prior to the closing of the building, the Isaac Scott Hathaway Museum moved to a new location on Georgetown Street.
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.
Barthell Coal Mining Camp. Whitley City. McCreary. South Central Kentucky. Mining. Open-air museum includes museum, barber shop, bath house, doctor's office, machine shop, mining motor displays, school/church house, 1890s reconstructed log cabin and mine tour. Behringer-Crawford Museum. Covington. Kenton.
Lextran Route 21. Website. www .aviationky .org. The Aviation Museum of Kentucky is an aviation museum located at the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky. Incorporated in 1989, and opened to the public in April, 1995. It includes over 20,000 square feet (1,900 m 2) of exhibit space, a library, and an aircraft restoration and repair shop.
Lexington Children's Museum opens. Population: 225,366. 1991 – Arboretum established. 1995 – Aviation Museum of Kentucky incorporated. 1996 City website online. UK Soccer Complex opens. 1997 - The first shops open in Hamburg Pavilion. 1998 - William T. Young Library established. 2000 – Population: 260,512. 21st century
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 ...
71000341 [1] Added to NRHP. August 12, 1971. Mary Todd Lincoln House in Lexington, Kentucky, USA, was the girlhood home of Mary Todd, the future first lady and wife of the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. Today the fourteen-room house is a museum containing period furniture, portraits, and artifacts from the Todd and Lincoln families.
Gratz Park is a neighborhood and historic district located just north of downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It was named after early Lexington businessman Benjamin Gratz whose home stands on the corner of Mill and New streets at the edge of Gratz Park. The Gratz Park Historic District consists of 16 contributing buildings including the Hunt-Morgan ...