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Lexington's African American Heritage Walking Tour

Lexington's African American Heritage Walking Tour

Join us for a walking tour of Downtown Lexington’s African American Heritage Sites. The full tour is available as a single MP3, or you can download individual tracks. For the single MP3, music will play between the stops. You can pause the track while you walk between stops.

This tour covers a walking distance of 1.7 miles.

The music clips used in this tour are from “Walking Barefoot on Grass” by Kai Engel, and are used with a CCBY license. It is available here: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kai_Engel/

Welcome

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Tour Stop
1

First African Baptist Church

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Tour Stop Address

264-272 East Short Street

Tour Stop
2

Deweese Street

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Tour Stop Address

Two sites at this location

Between East Short Street and Elm Tree Lane

Tour Stop
3

Polk-Dalton Clinic

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Tour Stop Address

217 Elm Tree Lane

Tour Stop
4

The Lyric Theatre & Cultural Arts Center

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Tour Stop Address

300 East Third Street

Tour Stop
5

Charles Young Center

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Tour Stop Address

540 East Third Street

Tour Stop
6

Isaac Murphy Memorial Garden

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Tour Stop Address

Corner of Nelson Ave. & East Third Street

Tour Stop
7

William Wells Brown Community Center

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Tour Stop Address

548 East Sixth Street

Tour Stop
8

African Cemetery No. 2

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Tour Stop Address

419 East Seventh Street