Lexington, Kentucky, USA
1895 - Lexington

Lexington, a handsome city, the capital of Fayette co., Ky., is on the Kentucky Central Railroad, at its junction with the Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexington Railroad, and on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, 29 miles E.S.E. of Frankfort, 77 miles S. of Cincinnati, and 94 miles E. by S. of Louisville. Lat. 38°6' N.; lon. 84° 33' W. The city is very pleasantly situated, and is surrounded by a fertile, undulating country. The streets cross one another at right angles, are well paved, and lighted with gas. Main street is 80 feet wide. Here is a monument to Henry Clay which cost about $50,000. He resided many years at Ashland, near this town. Lexington is the seat of the Kentucky University, which was organized in 1858 and has 9 instructors and about 100 students and a library of 20,000 volumes. A college of law and an agricultural and mechanical college are connected with this institution. This city also contains a state lunatic asylum, which occupies a large and handsome edifice, 17 churches, a court-house, a fine post-office building, a public library of 16,000 volumes, 3 national banks, 2 state banks, a commercial college, and £ which issue 8 papers, among which are 1 or daily newspapers and a monthly agricultural paper. Here are extensive manufactures of bagging, rope, carriages, distilled liquors, &c. Lexington was formerly the capital of Kentucky. It was founded in 1776 and incorporated in 1782. Pop. in 1880, 16,656; in 1890, 21,567.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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