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Lexington, Kentucky. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Fayette. Associated ZIP codes: 40502, 40503, 40504, 40505, 40506, 40507, 40508, 40509, 40510, 40511, 40512, 40513, 40514, 40515, 40516, 40517, 40522, 40523, 40524, 40526, 40533, 40536, 40544, 40546, 40550, 40555, 40574, 40575, 40576, 40577, 40578, 40579, 40580, 40581, 40582, 40583, 40588, 40591, 40598.
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LEXINGTON, Ky. — There is a case that Saturday’s football game between No. 8 Kentucky and No. 16 Tennessee is the most significant contest ever played in...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) — Central Florida coach Johnny Dawkins has Kentucky high on his list of teams to watch this season.
LEXINGTON, Ky. (KT) – Kentucky Educational Television (KET) announced on Friday the passing of its long-time Executive Director and CEO, Shae Hopkins, on T...
Celebrate literature with readers and authors at the Kentucky Book Festival on November 7 at Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Lexington Green!
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - With Election Day right around the corner, Lexington voters are making plans before heading to the polls.
A Lexington police officer is recovering after a crash early Monday morning on Interstate 75 southbound, near mile marker 115 at Newtown Pike.
Lynyrd Skynyrd will hit the stage as part of the initial lineup for the first wave of shows at The Rail.
Drivers are being asked to avoid part of Leestown Road in Lexington after downed utility lines blocked the roadway.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Will Stein does not want to hear that the impending expansion of the College Football Playoff from 12 to 24 teams is going to diminish the...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Having ordered Kentucky’s second try at a walk-off, overtime two-point conversion in two weeks, Will Stein did not even watch the footba...
A Kentucky fan celebrates on the field after the Wildcats defeat LSU 35-34 in overtime, Saturday, Oct. 10, 2026, at Kroger Field in Lexington, Ky.
LEXINGTON, Ky. — From a football karma perspective, it seems LSU is still paying for the ever-lasting thrill of the Bluegrass Miracle.
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Lexington is in Fayette County, Kentucky.
Region: Kentucky
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Lexington was named in June 1775, in what was then Fincastle County, Virginia, 17 years before Kentucky became a state. A party of frontiersmen led by William McConnell was camped on the Middle Fork of Elkhorn Creek, now Town Branch, which runs under Vine Street, at today's McConnell Springs. Pioneers beyond the Appalachians widely supported the Massachusetts colonists against the British Crown, and when news came of the fighting at Lexington, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775, the frontiersmen named their camp Lexington. It was the first of many American places named for the Massachusetts town.
On January 25, 1780, 45 settlers signed the Lexington Compact, the "Articles of Agreement, made by the inhabitants of the town of Lexington, in the County of Kentucky." The settlement, also called Fort Lexington, was fortified against attacks by British-allied Native warriors. The agreement gave each share a half-acre "in" lot, probably for a house inside the walls, and a five-acre "out" lot to clear for farming, and corn is the only crop it mentions. Several settlers had served under George Rogers Clark in the Illinois campaign of 1778 and 1779. William McConnell was not among the signers, though an Alexander McConnell was. Within two years John and Jacob Wymore were killed in separate attacks outside the fort. In December 1781 a caravan of about 600 pioneers from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, known as the Travelling Church and led by the preacher Lewis Craig and Captain William Ellis, arrived and founded several churches, including South Elkhorn Christian Church. The Virginia General Assembly chartered the town of Lexington on May 6, 1782. Sources Wikipedia: Lexington, Kentucky
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