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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28R2_murphy-house_Lexington-KY.html
Isaac Murphy's success in racing enabled him and his wife, Lucy, to buy a grand house that stood on this site. The house, called a mansion in some accounts, was located off the present East Third Street. It was brick and had two stories and 10 roo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QT_isaac-burns-murphy_Lexington-KY.html
One of the greatest jockeys in the history of American racing, Isaac Burns Murphy was born on a farm in the Bluegrass not far from Lexington in 1861. His parents were enslaved. His mother, America Murphy, was a domestic servant on the farm. His fa…
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"All the Best Jockeys..."
In the last decades of the 19th century, horse racing was America's great national sport and black jockeys, many from the Bluegrass region, stood at its center. It was the Gilded Age, a time of unbridled op…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QI_henry-clay_Lexington-KY.html
Henry Clay, born in Virginia in 1777, came to Lexington at the age of twenty and quickly established a successful law practice. In 1799 he married Lucretia Hart, daughter of one of this city's most prominent families.
He served six years in the K…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28F0_clay-villa-ca-1845_Lexington-KY.html
Home of James B. Clay, son of Henry Clay. Designed by Major Thomas Lewinski, as an Italianate villa. Floor plan consisted of central hall with 4 rooms on each floor. Thomas Clay's home, Mansfield, on Richmond Rd. designed at same time. James Clay …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C2J_lexington_Lexington-KY.html
The stallion Lexington was the key figure in development of the American Thoroughbred during the second half of the 19th Century. He was statistically the leading stallion in America for 14 consecutive years, 1861 - 1875, and again in two later ye…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AFG_historic-land_Lexington-KY.html
The land upon which Pleasant Green Baptist Church stands was conveyed in 1822 by Dr. Frederick Ridgely, a white surgeon in Lexington, to trustees Harry Quills, Benjamin Admon, and Solomon Walker, all slaves, for purpose of erecting an African chur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15JS_colonel-george-nicholas_Lexington-KY.html
Grave of George Nicholas1754-1799Revolutionary soldierVirginia House of DelegatesFather of Kentucky ConstitutionFirst Kentucky Attorney GeneralProfessor of Law at Transylvania University
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15H9_lexington-cemetery_Lexington-KY.html
Incorporated in 1849, Lexington Cemetery was laid out as a natural landscape park. Both Confederate and Union soldiers are buried in this cemetery. Towering over Henry Clay's grave is a 120-foot monument surmounted by his statue. Other noted men, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15H8_vertner-woodson-tandy_Lexington-KY.html
Born in Lexington, son of Henry A. Tandy, respected African American contractor. Attended the Chandler School, Tuskegee Institute, Cornell Univ. 1st registered black architect in New York State, where he built landmark homes & buildings. A founder…