Lexington Cemetery
Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the 1833 cholera epidemic in the area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: botanical garden and cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky
- Also known as: “The Lexington Cemetery”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include John C. Breckinridge Memorial and Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington.
John C. Breckinridge Memorial
Memorial
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The John C. Breckinridge Memorial, originally on the courthouse lawn of Lexington, Kentucky, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.
Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington
Memorial
Photo: Bedford, Public domain.
Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, in Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington is situated 900 feet west of Lexington Cemetery.
John Hunt Morgan Memorial
Memorial
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The John Hunt Morgan Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky, is a monument created during the Jim Crow era, as a tribute to Confederate General John Hunt Morgan, who was from Lexington and is buried in Lexington Cemetery. John Hunt Morgan Memorial is situated 910 feet west of Lexington Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Speigle Heights and Woodward Heights.
Speigle Heights
Neighborhood
Speigle Heights is a neighborhood just northwest of downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States. It is sometimes referred to as Irishtown. Its boundaries are Manchester Street to the north, Pine Street to the east, High Street/Versailles Road to the south, and Forbes Road to the west.
Woodward Heights
Neighborhood
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Woodward Heights is a neighborhood and historic district located immediately west of downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It is bounded by Maxwell Street and the Pleasant Green Hill neighborhood to the southwest, by the parking lot for Rupp Arena to the southeast, by the Lexington Convention Center property to the northeast, and by Herlihy, Cox, and High Streets to the north.
South Hill
Neighborhood
South Hill is a neighborhood and historic district located immediately south of downtown Lexington, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are South Limestone Street to the east, Pine Street to the south, South Broadway to the west, and High Street to the north.
Lexington Cemetery
- Categories: botanical garden and burial
- Location: Fayette, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lexington Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقبرة ليكسينغتون”
- Chinese: “莱克星顿公墓”
- Czech: “Lexington Cemetery”
- Esperanto: “tombejo de Leksingtono”
- French: “cimetière de Lexington”
- French: “Cimetière de Lexington”
- German: “Friedhof von Lexington”
- Greek: “Κοιμητήριο του Λέξινγκτον”
- Hebrew: “בית הקברות לקסינגטון”
- Irish: “Reilig Lexington”
- Japanese: “レキシントン墓地”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lexington Cemetery”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério de Lexington”
- Russian: “Лексингтонское кладбище”
- Scottish Gaelic: “cladh Lexington”
- Slovenian: “Lexington Cemetery”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Lexington”
- Swedish: “Lexington Cemetery”
- Tatar: “Лексиңтон зираты”
- Ukrainian: “Лексінгтонське кладовище”
- Welsh: “Mynwent Lexington”
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