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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28R2_murphy-house_Lexington-KY.html
Isaac Murphy's success in racing enabled him and his wife, Lucy, to buy a grand house that stood on this site. The house, called a mansion in some accounts, was located off the present East Third Street. It was brick and had two stories and 10 roo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QT_isaac-burns-murphy_Lexington-KY.html
One of the greatest jockeys in the history of American racing, Isaac Burns Murphy was born on a farm in the Bluegrass not far from Lexington in 1861. His parents were enslaved. His mother, America Murphy, was a domestic servant on the farm. His fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QS_isaac-murphy-memorial-art-garden_Lexington-KY.html
The Isaac Murphy Memorial Art Garden is named for the famed jockey whose house stood on this site. It was developed to commemorate the contributions of African Americans to Thoroughbred racing and to help revitalize this East End neighborhood. Man…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QP_skullers-clock_Lexington-KY.html
Skuller's clock has kept time on Main Street since its installation in the early twentieth century. As a sentinel along the city's main commercial thoroughfare, its iconic face has witnessed many decades of change in Lexington's central business d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QO_st-paul-catholic-church_Lexington-KY.html
(side one) The cornerstone was laid on Nov. 12,1865 and church consecrated by the Rt. Rev. G.A. Carroll, Bishop of Covington, on Oct. 18, 1868. The remains of the first pastor, Fr. Bekkers, are interred in a vault in the narthex of the church. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QM_isaac-murphy-memorial-art-garden-trailhead_Lexington-KY.html
(front side) "All the Best Jockeys..." In the last decades of the 19th century, horse racing was America's great national sport and black jockeys, many from the Bluegrass region, stood at its center. It was the Gilded Age, a time of unbridled op…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QK_phoenix-park_Lexington-KY.html
Most famous of all hostelries in Lexington was Postlethwait's, which was located on this site. Started in 1797, the inn was known for its fine beverages, bountiful table and attentive services. In 1820, a fire destroyed 38 rooms of the inn and a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QJ_rotary-club-of-lexington-phoenix-hotel_Lexington-KY.html
(Rotary Club of Lexington) Established as the 3rd Rotary Club in Kentucky and 182nd in the world, it first met on June 23, 1915. The club had weekly meetings at the Phoenix Hotel until 1942. The 2015 centennial marked 100 years of "Service Above …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28QI_henry-clay_Lexington-KY.html
Henry Clay, born in Virginia in 1777, came to Lexington at the age of twenty and quickly established a successful law practice. In 1799 he married Lucretia Hart, daughter of one of this city's most prominent families. He served six years in the K…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28PU_john-cabell-breckinridge_Lexington-KY.html
Citizen Lawyer Born January 16, 1821, Lexington, Kentucky Graduate of Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1838 Received Law Degree from Transylvania University, 1841 President Kentucky Association, now Keeneland Association In exile after Civ…
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