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Paris is a home rule-class city in Bourbon County, Kentucky, and the county seat. [8] It lies 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Lexington on the Stoner Fork of the Licking River . It is part of the Lexington–Fayette Metropolitan Statistical Area .
The Grange, located four miles north of Paris in Bourbon County, Kentucky, United States, was built in c.1818 [2] in the Federal style of architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1] It was built as a house for Ned Stone, a slave dealer who eventually was killed in a mutiny on a slave ship. [2]
Paris City School was founded in 1865 as a segregated public high school for white students, under the leadership of principal Julius Herrick. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The during the first year the class consisted of the principal, 3 teachers and 130 students, and was held in the former Bourbon Academy building on Pleasant Street. [ 6 ]
The Downtown Paris Historic District, in Paris, Kentucky, in Bourbon County, Kentucky, is a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It was deemed significant as: the largest, richest, most varied and best-preserved concentration of historic architecture in Bourbon County from the period c. 1788 to ...
The current Bourbon County Courthouse, on Courthouse Square in Paris, Kentucky, was built in 1905. This is the fourth courthouse to be built on this land. It was designed by architect Frank P. Milburn in Beaux Arts style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. [1] The first courthouse was built in 1787.
The name was later changed to "Cheap", after John Cheap, a blind clergyman. [5] The original farming community returned to the name of "Advance" when a post office was established in 1918. In 1938, the post office was renamed "Flatwoods", and the town was incorporated the same year under that name.
A pair of slave traders, Downing and Hughes, noted raising 57 percent capital on their sale of 13 slaves—purchasing the 13 individuals for $5,292.50, expending $257.72 during their travels to Natchez, Mississippi for resale, and receiving $8,695.00 upon final sale. [6]
WYGH (1440 AM) is a radio station licensed to Paris, Kentucky, United States, serving the Lexington area. It is a simulcast of what is broadcast on WIOK 107.5 FM in Falmouth, Kentucky. The station is currently owned by Hammond Broadcasting, Inc. [ 2 ]