Travel Guide for the United States
Lexington, Kentucky, with a population of 688,707 is by far the largest Lexington City within the USA.
Officially known as Lexington-Fayette Urban County, it is the sixty-third largest city within the USA, and the second largest city within Kentucky. [Read more...]
In June, 1775, William McConnell and his fellow frontiersmen camped along the Elkhorn Creek on the outskirts of the place known today as McConnell Springs. Upon hearing the victory of the first battle of the American Revolutionary War, McConnell named the campsite Lexington, in honor of the monumental victory. With ongoing discord between the settlers and native Indians, Lexington was to remain a stockade for the next few years until the colonists successfully defended it against an Indian attack in 1782. Kentucky County was divided into three areas of Fayette, Lincoln, and Jefferson counties with Lexington becoming the capital of Fayette County. The Virginia General Assembly was petitioned by the citizens of Lexington in 1782 to become a town. [Read more...]
With many different counties, cities, towns, and villages within the USA called Lexington, it does make you question the history behind the name.
One of the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War was The Battle of Lexington and Concord. Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington and Cambridge, all located within the Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, are where the battles began on April 19th, 1775. [Read more...]
Known as the Athens of the west Lexington Kentucky is officially the 2nd largest city in Kentucky and 63rd largest in the United States. The area in and around of Lexington is referred to as heart of Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region.
2009 saw the city get an estimated population of around 296,545 people and a metropolitan population of around 470,849 people adding up to a combined general population of 688,707 people. [Read more...]