A New History of Lexington, Kentucky

A New History of Lexington, Kentucky
ISBN-10
1439673896
ISBN-13
9781439673898
Category
History
Pages
128
Language
English
Published
2021-10-11
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Author
Foster Ockerman Jr.

Description

Lexington is known as the "Horse Capital of the World," but the city's history runs much deeper. Learn about the mayor who refused the Ku Klux Klan permission to march and organize in the city. Meet one of the nation's foremost advocates for voting rights for women who was a native of the city. Visit the many small hamlets around Lexington that were settlements for the formerly enslaved. Lexington was the state's first capital and the nation's first community to establish an urban service boundary to regulate growth and preserve horse farms. Seventh-generation Kentuckian and Lexington native Foster Ockerman Jr. offers an updated history.

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