A One-Room Schoolhouse with a Powerful History: Effort Underway to Preserve Fayette County’s Rosenwald School
Lexington, Ky.–Efforts are underway to preserve and highlight the historical significance of Fayette County’s Black rural hamlets, including the only remaining Rosenwald school in the area. The wooden, one-room...
The Untold Stories of Lexington’s Historical Black Urban Enclaves
From Slavery to Segregation, From Segregation to Redlining and Gentrification When examining the stories of historical black settlements in Lexington, there tends to be an emphasis on rural settlements...
Settled: The mystery surrounding the 1881 death of Lexington police captain Neale Hendricks
Lexington, Ky., Monday, August 1, 1881 About half past 3 o’clock, policeman Neale Hendricks entered the Short Line Saloon on Water Street. The saloon, which was kept by Charles...
“Second Battle of Lexington” Part One: Judge asks citizens to hunt girl’s killer in county
Lexington, Ky., February 4, 1920–The cold, crisp air of February hung heavy in the quiet community of South Elkhorn, in Fayette County, Kentucky. The residents went about their daily...
Photos: The AMC Theater on Mapleleaf is demolished
Well, it was a good run. The AMC Theater on Mapleleaf Dr. in Lexington, Ky is currently being demolished. The theater was built in 1995 and was a Carmike...
Lexington History 1867 – Davis Bottom July 4 civil rights rally echoes all the way to US Senate
Above all else, Davis Bottom is the story of laborers, servants, railwaymen, tobacco workers, clergy and cooks. The people who helped make Lexington the commercial heart of the Bluegrass...
“From bike-riding hipsters to yuppies” – The colonization of Smithtown
Hampton Court is a single block residential street in downtown Lexington. It connects to West Third Street and runs perpendicular to it before dead-ending just before West Fourth Street....
Redlining, history, and the anatomy of inequality in Lexington, Ky
We recently created an interactive map of Lexington’s redlined neighborhoods. The map was based on a 1940 map used by bankers to determine what areas they would issue home...
Lexington, Ky 1940 Redlining Map
In the United States, redlining is a discriminatory practice in which services (financial and otherwise) are withheld from potential customers who reside in neighborhoods classified as ‘hazardous’ to investment; these neighborhoods have significant numbers of racial and ethnic minorities,...