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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. 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. 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 ...

5. List of Odd Fellows buildings - Wikipedia

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   In 1933, 26,000 bodies from the Oddfellows Cemetery in San Francisco were moved here. San Francisco had previously passed an ordinance to prohibit the sale of cemetery lots or permit any further burials within the city. Odd Fellows Cemetery (Sonora, California) 1856: Sonora, California: Currently reported in disrepair. Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery ...

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. 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 ...