Timeline of Lexington, Kentucky

The following is a timeline of the history of Lexington, Kentucky, United States.

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18th century
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  • 1775 – Lexington founded in the Colony of Virginia.
  • 1776 – Lexington becomes part of the new state of Virginia.
  • 1782
    • May – Town of Lexington established.
    • August – Siege of Bryan Station.
  • 1787 – Kentucky Gazette newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1789
  • 1784 – Mount Zion Church founded.[3]
  • 1790
    • Population: 2,000.[4]
    • First African Baptist Church founded (approximate date).
  • 1792
  • 1796
    • Episcopal church established.[5]
    • Lexington Library founded.[6]
  • 1797 – Postlethwait's Tavern built.[7]

19th century
Lexington, Kentucky, 1871
  • 1801 – Walnut Hill Presbyterian Church built.
  • 1806
  • 1808 – The Reporter newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1809 – Lexington Jockey Club formed.[8]
  • 1810 - Population: 4,326.[9]
  • 1811 – Giron confectionery in business.[10]
  • 1812 – Juvenile Library organized.[11]
  • 1814 – Hunt House (residence) built.
  • 1816 – Usher's Theater built (approximate date).[12]
  • 1818 – Athenaeum founded.[6]
  • 1820 - Population: 5,279.[9]
  • 1821 – Lafayette Seminary established.[13]
  • 1823 – St. Catherine's Academy for girls established.[14]
  • 1824 – Eastern Lunatic Asylum established.[15]
  • 1826
    • Kentucky Association formed.[8]
    • Masonic Hall dedicated.[12]
  • 1830
  • 1831 – Lexington Observer newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1832 – Episcopal Burying Ground established.
  • 1833 – Cholera epidemic.
  • 1835 - Frankfort-Lexington railway begins operating.[16]
  • 1840 - Population: 6,997.[9]
  • 1844 – Market-house built.[12]
  • 1845
    • Christ Church Episcopal built.
    • True American anti-slavery newspaper begins publication.
  • 1847 – Licking and Lexington Railroad begins operating.
  • 1848 – Lexington and Frankfort Railroad takes over the former Lexington & Ohio.
  • 1849
  • 1850
    • Lexington and Danville Railroad begins operating.
    • Maysville and Lexington Railroad begins operating.
    • Population: 8,159.[9]
  • 1854 – Sayre School established.
  • 1856 – First African Baptist Church built.
  • 1859 – Kentucky Central railroad begins operating trains to Cincinnati.[17]
  • 1860 – Lexington and Southern Kentucky Railroad begins operating.
  • 1861 – August – Union cavalry arrive.
  • 1863 – Lexington National Cemetery established.
  • 1865
  • 1867 – Cincinnati, Lexington and East Tennessee Railroad begins operating.
  • 1869
  • 1870
  • 1872 – First Presbyterian Church built.[7]
  • 1873
    • Smith Business College established.[14]
    • Trotting Track constructed by Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association.[7]
  • 1874 – Lexington Railway Company streetcars in operation.
  • 1876 – Gordon School for boys established.[14]
  • 1877 – Saint Joseph Hospital founded.
  • 1882 – Floral Hall built.[3]
  • 1885 - On July 18, "Woman Triumphant," a marble statue by Joel Tanner Hart portraying a classical nude woman and a Cupid, bought by the Hart's Memorial Association $4,000) and Fayette County ($1,000), was installed in the Fayette County Courthouse[19]
  • 1887 –
    • Opera House opens.[3]
    • John C. Breckinridge Memorial by Edward Valentine, erected on November 24th. The 8 foot bronze statue, on 11 foot pedestal of granite was placed in the center of Cheapside Street on the east of the court-house and facing the building.[20]
  • 1888 – Kentucky Leader newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1889 - The Kentucky Equal Rights Association meets at the Courthouse in Lexington - its second annual meeting after having been founded in 1888 (during the American Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Cincinnati)[21]
  • 1892 – Lexington Standard newspaper begins publication.[1]
  • 1894
    • The Fayette Equal Rights Association petitioned the Mayor and City Council to appoint a woman on the School Board. Mayor Henry T. Duncan appointed Mrs. Wilbur R. Smith.[22]
    • Woman's Club of Central Kentucky organized.[23]
    • Central Christian Church built.
  • 1895 - Women (black and white) in Lexington began voting in Lexington Public School Board elections.[24] 2000 women voted in Lexington and four women were elected to the Board of Education. [25]
  • 1900 – Population: 26,369.[26]

20th century

21st century

See also

References
  1. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  2. Lewis Collins (1874), "Fayette County", Historical sketches of Kentucky, Covington, Ky: Collins & Co.
  3. "Lexington, Kentucky: the Athens of the West". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  4. Jedidiah Morse (1797). "Lexington". The American Gazetteer. Boston, Massachusetts: At the presses of S. Hall, and Thomas & Andrews.
  5. Historical Sketch of Christ Church Cathedral: Lexington, Ky., Transylvania Printing Co., 1898, OL 20506470M
  6. Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  7. Federal Writers' Project 1939.
  8. Spencer 1878.
  9. Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Census Bureau, 1998
  10. William Kavanaugh Doty (1915), The confectionery of Monsieur Giron, Charlottesville: Michie Co., OCLC 5869889, OL 6584317M
  11. Haynes McMullen (2000), American Libraries before 1876, Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, ISBN 031331277X, OL 45698M, 031331277X
  12. Ranck 1872.
  13. Jane Sherzer (January 1916). "Higher Education of Women in the Ohio Valley Previous to 1840". Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly.
  14. Patterson, Homer L. (1914). Patterson's American Educational Directory.
  15. Report of the Board of Managers of the Eastern Lunatic Asylym (at Lexington, Kentucky), for the years 1854-5. 1846.
  16. Emma M. Connelly (1890). "Chronological Epitome". Story of Kentucky. Story of the States. Boston: D. Lothrop Co. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t79s1x545.
  17. Charles Gilbert Hall (1902), The Cincinnati Southern Railway: A History, The McDonald Press, OCLC 2037510, OL 20592658M
  18. U.S. Department of Education (1868). Report of the Commissioner of Education. Washington, DC: Govt Printing Office.
  19. "Daily evening bulletin (Maysville, Ky.)". Chronicling America. July 18, 1885. p. 1. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  20. "Breckinridge". The Big Sandy News. Chronicling America. November 24, 1887. p. 1. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  21. "Minutes of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, November 19th, 20th, and 21st, 1889, Court House, Lexington, Kentucky. With Reports and Constitution". Kentucky Digital Library. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center. 1890. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  22. Kentucky Equal Rights Association. "Minutes of the Seventh Annual Convention, Held at Merrick Lodge, Lexington, KY. 1894". Kentucky Digital Library. University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  23. "Woman's Club of Central Kentucky". Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  24. "Minutes of the Eighth Annual Convention of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association, December 10th, 11th and 12th, 1895, Court-House, Richmond, KY". Kentucky Digital Library. University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  25. ""Kentucky" 128-29 In "Reports from Auxiliary States," Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, held in Washington, D.C., January 23d to 28th, 1896. Edited by Rachel Foster Avery". [Washington D.C.] : National American Woman Suffrage Association, [1896]. hdl:2027/hvd.rslfc6. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  26. Britannica 1910.
  27. "History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. VI". National Association of Woman Suffrage Association. 1922. hdl:2027/hvd.rslfb7. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  28. Hollingsworth, Randolph (2004). Lexington: Queen of the Bluegrass. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
  29. Poor's manual of railroads. 1922.
  30. Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Kentucky", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
  31. "Lexington Children's Theatre". Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  32. "Kentucky". Official Congressional Directory. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 1952 – via HathiTrust.
  33. Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Kentucky", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
  34. "Lexington Philharmonic". Archived from the original on December 1, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  35. "LexArts". Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  36. Gillen 2010.
  37. "Lexington Ballet". Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  38. "Explorium of Lexington". Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  39. "The Arboretum State Botanical Garden of Kentucky". Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  40. "Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government". Archived from the original on March 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
  41. Crighton, Kathleen (January 5, 1998). "Retail developer Thomas has big plans for 1998". Atlanta Business Chronicle. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
  42. "Lexington History Museum". Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  43. "Lexington Film League". Retrieved April 1, 2017.
  44. "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved March 30, 2013.
  45. Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved September 7, 2016.
  46. "Kentucky". Official Congressional Directory: 113th Congress. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. 2013. hdl:2027/msu.31293033541552 – via HathiTrust.

Bibliography

Published in 19th century

  • Samuel R. Brown (1817). "Lexington". The Western Gazetteer; or, Emigrant's Directory. Auburn, N.Y: Printed by H.C. Southwick. OCLC 10530489.
  • Daniel Blowe (1820), "Lexington", A Geographical, Historical, Commercial, and Agricultural View of the United States of America, London: Edwards & Knibb
  • George Washington Ranck (1872), History of Lexington, Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress, R. Clarke, OCLC 1384576
  • "Lexington". Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory. R.L. Polk & Co. 1876.
  • Z. Harrison (1878), "Lexington", Description of the Cincinnati Southern Railway from Cincinnati to Chattanooga, Cincinnati: Spencer & Craig printing works, OCLC 13741078
  • "Lexington", Kentucky State Gazetteer and Business Directory, Detroit: R. L. Polk & Co., 1881
  • George Washington Ranck (1883), Guide to Lexington, Kentucky, Lexington, Ky: Transylvania Printing and Publishing Company, OCLC 12630056, OL 271586M

Published in 20th century

Published in 21st century

  • Gerald L. Smith (2002). Lexington, Kentucky. Black America. Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia.
  • Hollingsworth, Randolph (2004). Lexington: Queen of the Bluegrass. The Making of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
  • Shawn Gillen (2010). "'The urge to merge:' the consolidation of Lexington and Fayette County, Kentucky". In Suzanne M. Leland; Kurt Thurmaier (eds.). City-County Consolidation: Promises Made, Promises Kept?. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-622-4.
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