Fayette County

The Heart of the Burley Industry: Tobacco and the Lexington Landscape

May 13, 2015

The press in the past few days about the Lorillard Lofts building made me stop and think about tobacco. Not the tobacco barns or the fields I know well as the daughter of a farmer, but the impact that the burley tobacco industry had on Lexington in the 20th century. A few years ago I (read more)

Categories: Bluegrass, Farming, Fayette County

Tags: #burleytobacco, #kentuckyagriculture, #lexingtonky, #liggettandmyers

The Perfect Bet: A Visit to Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate

May 2, 2015

There are certain things all Kentucky schoolchildren learn (at least those of us who went through the public school system). All 120 counties, and the county seats. Daniel Boone, blazing a trail through the wilderness. That Derby Day is a sacred holiday, and that while basketball may be the Bluegrass religion, we revere a 19th-century (read more)

Categories: Bluegrass, Fayette County, Historic Preservation, Kentucky architecture, Tourism

Tags: Ashland, Great Compromiser, Henry Clay, Kentucky Archaeological Survey, Lexington KY, Politics, Public Archaeology

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