Lexington Cemetery

Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, . 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.
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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 John Hunt Morgan Memorial.

Memorial
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The , originally on the courthouse lawn of , was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.

Memorial
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The in , Kentucky, is a 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. is situated 910 feet west of Lexington Cemetery.

Memorial
Photo: Bedford, Public domain.
The Ladies' Confederate Memorial is an American Civil War monument erected in 1874 in Lexington Cemetery in . It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. is situated 940 feet west of Lexington Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Speigle Heights and Woodward Heights.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood just northwest of downtown , 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.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood and historic district located immediately west of downtown . It is bounded by Maxwell Street and the Pleasant Green Hill neighborhood to the southwest, by the parking lot for to the southeast, by the Lexington Convention Center property to the northeast, and by Herlihy, Cox, and High Streets to the north.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood and historic district located immediately south of downtown , 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

Latitude
38.05924° or 38° 3′ 33″ north
Longitude
-84.50827° or 84° 30′ 30″ west
Elevation
971 feet (296 metres)
Open location code
86CQ3F5R+MM
Geo­Names ID
4297986
Wiki­data ID
Q4257680
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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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