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- Marker No. 1466: Dr. Luke P. Blackburn, the Good Samaritan and the Yellow Fever Trunks
- Marker No. 2568: Joyland Park, Rollercoasters, Dancing, and Picnics on Paris Pike
- Marker No. 2174: Pope Villa, and the House That Hid Its Own Story
- Reformers, Firsts, and the Cemetery’s Silences
- Statesmen, Soldiers, and Lexington Fame
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Tag: Companion Articles
Deeper-dive stories connected to a Lexington historical marker, but too large to fit inside the marker’s own article.
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A companion article to Marker No. 1550: Lexington Cemetery. This is the second of two companion articles built around Marker No. 1550. The first, Statesmen, Soldiers, and Lexington Fame, covered the politicians and generals whose names dominate the cemetery’s own tours. This one turns to the women who built parallel legacies here, in medicine, suffrage,…
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A companion article to Marker No. 1550: Lexington Cemetery. Lexington Cemetery holds more than 64,000 burials on its 170 rolling acres, and a walk through it doubles as a walk through the city’s identity, at least the version it chose to carve in stone. This is the first of two companion articles built around Marker…
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A companion to Marker No. 1033: Eastern State Hospital In January 2011, a construction crew preparing the old Eastern State Hospital campus for a new community college building found what a backhoe operator had first stumbled onto back in 2005: unmarked graves, far more of them than anyone expected, quietly holding at least 186 people…
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A school named for the Great Emancipator, partly funded by his own son, opened in Irishtown in 1912 — and did not allow admission to Black children for the entirety of its fifty-five years as a public school. A companion piece to the Madeline McDowell Breckinridge article.
