| 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 (0.69 km2) |
| Built/Founded: | 1849 |
| Architect: | Adams, Julius W.; et al. |
| Architectural style(s): | Gothic, Romanesque |
| Governing body: | Local |
| Added to NRHP: | July 12, 1976 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 76000873 [1] |
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 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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.
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.
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List of notable people buried or entombed here
The cemetery also contains the graves of:
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- George Madison Adams (1837-1920) - Civil War veteran, U.S. Congressman
- James Lane Allen (1849-1925) - author
B
- Milton K. Barlow (1818-1891) - planetarium inventor
- James Burnie Beck (1822-1890) - Senator
- Clifton R. Breckinridge (1846-1932) - John Cabell Breckinridge's son
- John Cabell Breckinridge (1821-1875) - U.S. Vice President, Civil War Confederate Major General
- Gay Brewer (1932-2007) - golfer
- Sanders Dewees Bruce (1825-1902) - Civil War Union Army general
- Aylette Buckner (1806-1869) - U.S. Congressman
- Joseph Henry Bush (1794-1865) - portraitist
- Abraham Buford (1820-1884) - Civil War Confederate Army officer, turfman
C
- Henry Clay (1777-1852) - (antebellum Speaker of the House)
- James Brown Clay (1817-1864) - U.S. Congressman
- Laura Clay (1849-1941) - Suffragist
- Mary Barr Clay (1839-1924) - Women's Suffrage movement leader
- John Winston Coleman Jr. (1898-1983) - historian,author
- Leslie Combs (1793-1881) - War of 1812 veteran, general
- Wickliffe Cooper (1831-1867) - Civil War Union Army officer
- Jesse Orin Creech (1895-1948) - World War I Fighter Ace
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- Benjamin Winslow Dudley (1785-1870) - surgeon
- Basil W. Duke (1838-1916) - Civil War General
- George B. Duncan (1861-1950) - United States Army general in World War I
- Henry Clay Dunlap (1828-1872) - Civil War Union brevet brigadier general
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- Andrew Eugene Erwin (1830-1863) - Civil War Confederate Army officer
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- Joseph S. Fowler (1820-1902) - Senator
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- John R. Gaines (1928-2005) - thoroughbred pioneer, philanthropist
- John M. Gaver, Sr. (1900-1982) - U.S. Hall of Fame racehorse trainer
- Randall L. Gibson (1832-1892) - Senator, Civil War Confederate Army brevet brigadier general
- Gordon Granger (1822-1876) - Civil War Union Major general
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- Henry Hampton Halley (1874-1965) - author of the Halley's Bible Handbook
- Roger Hanson (1827-1863) - Civil War Confederate brevet brigadier general
- Thomas H. Hunt (1815-1884) - Civil War Confederate Army officer
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- John Telemachus Johnson (1788-1856) - U.S. Congressman
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- William P. Kimball (1857-1926) - U.S. Congressman
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- Gene Markey (1895-1980) - Hollywood screenwriter and producer and highly decorated U.S. Naval officer - veteran of World War I and World War II
- Lucille P. Markey (1896?-1982) - owner, Calumet Farm, wife of Gene Markey
- Alexander Marshall (1808-1884) - U.S. Congressman
- Thomas Alexander Marshall - U.S. Congressman
- Henry Brainerd McClellan (1840-1904) - Civil War Confederate Army officer, author, educator
- Byron McClelland (1855-1897), renowned Thoroughbred racehorse owner/breeder
- Hugh McKee (1844-1871) - Naval officer
- John Hunt Morgan (1825-1864) - Civil War Confederate general
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- James Reilly (1811-1863) - politician
- George Robertson - U.S. Congressman
- Arthur B. Rouse (1874-1956) - U.S. Congressman
- Adolph Rupp (1901-1977) - Hall of Fame basketball coach
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- George S. Shanklin (1807-1883) - U.S. Congressman
- Jouett Shouse (1879-1968)- U.S. Congressman
- King Swope (1893-1961) - U.S. Congressman
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- Barak G. Thomas (1826-1906), Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
- William Henry Townsend (1890-1964) - historian and author
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- Thomas R. Underwood (1898-1956) - U.S. Congressman, Senator
- James Albert Varney, Sr. (1910-1985) - Jim Varney's father
- Jim Varney (1949-2000) - actor who was best known as Ernest P. Worrell
- Louise H. Varney (1913-1994) - Jim Varney's mother
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- Elisha Warfield (1781-1859), physician, academic, Thoroughbred racehorse breeder
- Katharine E. Wilkie (1904-1980) - author
- Elisha I. Winter (1781-1849) - U.S. Congressman
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007-01-23. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
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