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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13K4_robert-j-kleberg-jr_Lexington-KY.html
For four decades Robert J. Kleberg, Jr. headed King Ranch, one of America's unique institutions. Among divisions of King Ranch is the Thoroughbred farm he founded outside Lexington, on property that was once part of Col. E. R. Bradley's Idle Hour …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13K2_c-v-whitney_Lexington-KY.html
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney represented the third generation of the Whitney family's prominence in business, society, and racing. His mother was a granddaughter of shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt. C. V. Whitney and a cousin, Joh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13K0_leslie-combs-ii_Lexington-KY.html
Leslie Combs II put a modern slant on the management and marketing of horses. He specialized in the form of syndication whereby some thirty-six shares would be sold in an individual stallion. Beau Pere, purchased for $100,000 in 1947, was his firs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13JZ_paul-mellon_Lexington-KY.html
Thoroughbred racing is but one of many aspects of society to benefit from the philanthropy of Paul Mellon. A book published in the 1990s listed $640 million in major charitable donations. Mellon's interests range from the work of Carl Jung to gazi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13JV_elizabeth-arden-graham_Lexington-KY.html
The proprietress of the famed cosmetics house, Elizabeth Arden was born Florence Nightingale Graham near Toronto, Canada. At age twenty-four she moved to New York, later borrowed $6000 from her brother, and began her own firm. By 1945, the Elizabe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12YZ_breckinridges-last-home_Lexington-KY.html
Built circa 1866, this house was occupied by John C. Breckinridge in 1874-1875. The former U.S. senator and youngest U.S. vice-president was also a Confederate general and secretary of war. After exile, he returned to Lexington in 1869 and resumed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12YY_school-of-medicine_Lexington-KY.html
(obverse)Site of the world-renowned Medical Hall of Transylvania University. Erected 1839 and dedicated November 2, 1840. Massive building of Grecian architecture with facilities not surpassed at that time by any school in America or Europe. Const…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12YX_thomas-hunt-morgan-genetic-research_Lexington-KY.html
(obverse)Thomas Hunt Morgan
Winner of 1933 Nobel Prize was born in Hunt-Morgan house, 1866; grew up here. A nephew of John Hunt Morgan, he attended State College of Ky. (Univ. of Ky.). Taught at Columbia Univ. and there, influenced by Mendel's …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO1U_mary-todd-lincoln_Lexington-KY.html
On this site Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln, was born Dec. 13, 1818, and here spent her childhood.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO1Q_todd-house_Lexington-KY.html
Home of Mary Todd Lincoln from 1832 to 1839. To this house in after years she brought Abraham Lincoln and their children.