If you want to know more about Lexington history here’s where to start.
https://www.lexpublib.org/genealogy-and-local-history
Tales from the Kentucky Room is the Lexington Public Library’s podcast series.
https://www.lexpublib.org/podcasts/tales-kentucky-room
Lexington also has its own history museum to explore.
https://www.lexhistory.org/
The museum also collaborates with WUKY on the Lex Talk History podcast:
https://www.wuky.org/podcast/lextalk-history
Here is Wayne Johnson’s (subjective and in no particular order) list of the Top 10 significant events in Lexington’s 250 year history:
The hiring of Adolph Rupp as basketball coach at the University of Kentucky.
https://ukathletics.com/news/2016/05/19/131461809013461929/
The removal of the train tracks in downtown Lexington in 1968.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-1zdaOgVdE
The Revolutionary War-era siege of Bryan Station.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zAPTxUroEs
The Comair plane crash in 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comair_Flight_5191
The 1920 courthouse riot surrounding the murder of Geneva Hardman.
https://www.lexpublib.org/podcasts/tales-kentucky-room/episodes/murder-geneva-hardman-interview-peter-brackney-2020
The arrival of IBM in Lexington in 1956.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/business/article44377293.html
The merger of city and county government in 1974.
https://www.lexpublib.org/digital-archives/collection/lexington-and-fayette-county-government-documents
The first published edition of the Kentucky Gazette newspaper in 1787.
https://www.lexpublib.org/digital-archives/collection/kentucky-gazette-1787-1840
The public health crises of Lexington’s 1833 Cholera epidemic and 2020’s COVID 19 pandemic.
https://kyhi.org/2020/02/04/the-1833-cholera-epidemic-at-lexington-kentucky/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Kentucky
The naming of Lexington at McConnell Springs in 1775.
https://www.commercelexington.com/lexington-history.html
Let the conversations begin!
