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Adolph Rupp left a lasting legacy on the Wildcats basketball program. In the fall of 1975 Lexington opened a new basketball arena for the Kentucky basketball program. The Wildcats moved off campus from Memorial Coliseum to Rupp Arena in the downtown metroplex. Appropriately the arena was named after the man that had built the program's ...
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.
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 slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.
A portion of Lexington’s popular Legacy Trail will soon go under a major, busy Lexington street. As part of the widening of Newtown Pike between New Circle Road and Interstate 75/Interstate 64 ...
The Living Arts & Science Center, formerly the George B. (Blackburn) Kinkead House, is an art and education center housed in an historic mansion in Lexington, Kentucky. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] It was donated to the center by the Kinkead family in 1981. [3]
Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky.. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the 1833 cholera epidemic in the area.
Lexington Herald-Leader|Lexington Daily Press begins publication. [4] Odd Fellows Temple built. 1872 – First Presbyterian Church built. [9] 1873 Smith Business College established. [16] Trotting Track constructed by Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association. [9] 1874 Lexington Railway Company streetcars in operation. Population: 13,600. [1]
Queen Elizabeth II's Lasting Legacy. Speaking in 1940 — alongside her sister Margaret — to children who had been evacuated from their homes, as German bombs landed on British cities, Queen ...