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Brenna guests to share her research on three of Lexington’s Black enclaves, founded by formerly enslaved persons after the Civil War. She highlights the history we know, and points out that much of the history of these hamlets and their residents are lost
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The League of Women Voters of Lexington, Kentucky, was established in 1920.
The city reports and ordinances for Lexington contain a wide variety of information about the people, infrastructure, and businesses.
While the focus of content in the digital archive is Fayette County, many other counties are represented. This list is in alphabetical order by county name for non-Fayette County content.
Anderson County
The Kentucky Rally Songs pamphlet contains 42 songs compiled and printed by the state chapter of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, to be used at the many gatherings and rallies that they organized in the late 19th and ea
The Lexington Musicians' Association is the local chapter of the American Federation of Musicians (Local 554-635) and was chartered in 1910.
Illustrated Lexington Kentucky contains photographs, demographics, commerce and financial information about Lexington up to 1919.
The Library's digitized collection includes some non-Fayette County directories for businesses, farms and residences.
The Cyrus Parker Jones Funeral Notice collection contains 667 funeral cards of Lexington residents during the years of 1806-1886.
The loose scrapbook pages were given to the library, since the original owner is not known.
The Kentucky Military Institute was a military preparatory boarding school from 1845 to 1971, chartered by the state legislature in 1847. It had several homes, with the longest in Lyndon, Kentucky, outside of Louisville.
The Kentucky Mountain Club was founded in 1929 as a social organization for residents of Lexington, Kentucky, who had been born or resided in the counties of eastern Kentucky.
The Council of Defense books contain records for Fayette County’s Army soldiers, Navy sailors, Marines, and Army nurses in World War I, and include information regarding the person’s residence, birth place and date, specific units and en
The Fayette County Images contains photographs of Lexington and Fayette County Kentucky.
Until 1974, Lexington and Fayette County had two separate governing bodies.
Old Kentucky Architecture is a comprehensive book by Rexford Newcomb that was published in 1940.
Fayette County's buildings contain a great deal of history about the region and its inhabitants.
Mariam and Denise discuss the history of the Joyland Amusement Park (1923-1963).
The Dunn Photograph Collection contains images of Lexington, KY taken in the 1960s and 1980s. Keller J.
