• Tim Berners-Lee, computer-science genius and creator of the World Wide Web lived Lexington Massachusetts prior to moving the UK in 2004
• Sidney Burbank, famous officer in the US Army during the American Civil War
• Henry Abraham, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
• Francis Judd Cooke , noted composer
• David Angelo, comedian and writer
• Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, creator of the theory of generative grammar and a prominent linguists of the 20th century, an author, commentator and a noted political activist.
• Nicolaas Bloembergen, Nobel Prize in Physics
• Harold Dow Bugbee, western artist [Read more...]
Famous Residents
February 25, 2011 By
Lexington – Kentucky Government
February 10, 2011 By
 The governments of the Lexington and Fayette County combined to create the current Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUGG) in 1974. Part of the Kentucky’s 6th congressional district, Democrat Ben Chandler was elected in 2004. Lexington’s United States Senate is the Republican Floor Leader, Mitch McConnell, elected in 1984. The state’s junior United States Senate is Rand Paul who was elected in 2010. Recently elected as Mayor is Jim Gray, who was sworn into office by Mary Nobel on 2nd of January 2010. [Read more...] |
Kentucky – Lexington Climate
February 7, 2011 By
With four very distinct seasons that do not have any prolonged adverse weather conditions. [Read more...]
Lexington – Kentucky Places of Interest
February 2, 2011 By
• American Saddlebred Museum – situated on the grounds of the Kentucky Horse Park, featuring trophies, photos, tack and artwork, including an expansive collection of George Ford Morris painting.
• Aviation Museum of Kentucky – historic aircraft, aviation equipment and artifacts
• Bluegrass Heritage Museum – Exhibits focus on the history of Bluegrass people and places from the Eskippakkithiki Indian settlements from their origins through to today.
• Camp Nelson Heritage Park – Restored site of Union army camp.
• University of Kentucky Basketball Museum – Exhibits enable visitors to play a virtual game with Wildcats legends, call play to play, and test their trivia knowledge. [Read more...]
The Population of Lexington – Kentucky
January 27, 2011 By
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...]
History of Lexington, Kentucky
January 24, 2011 By
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...]
Lexington Kentucky
January 19, 2011 By
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...]