Lexington Cemetery
| Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument | |
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| (U.S. National Register of Historic Places) | |
 One of the lakes at Lexington Cemetery
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| Location: | Lexington, Kentucky |
| Area: | 170 acres |
| Built/Founded: | 1849 |
| Architect: | Adams,Julius W.; et al. |
| Architectural style(s): | Gothic, Romanesque |
| Added to NRHP: | July 12, 1976 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 76000873 [1] |
| Governing body: | Local |
Lexington Cemetery 170 acres (0.7 km²) is a private, non-profit cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. It is open to the public during daylight hours.
The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1849 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery now containing over 64,000 interments. Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
The cemetery also contains the graves of:
- James Lane Allen - (author)
- Milton K. Barlow - (planetarium inventor)
- John Cabell Breckinridge - (Vice President of the United States, Confederate Major General, and last Confederate Secretary of War)
- Henry Clay - (antebellum Speaker of the House)
- Basil W. Duke - American Civil War General
- Hal Price Headley (1888-1962) - horseman, founder of Keeneland Sales
- Lucille Parker Wright Markey - philanthropist, owner of Calumet Farm
- John Hunt Morgan - Confederate general
- Adolph Rupp - Hall of Fame basketball coach
Also within the cemetery are three places which are on the National Register of Historic Places separately from the main cemetery: Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, and Lexington National Cemetery.
See also
References
- ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
External links
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