Busy Cheapside

ID: 515
This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block

This early 20th century post card shows Cheapside Street, which runs left of the Fayette County courthouse; the trolley cars are shown on Main St. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block

By Andrew Patrick
Historical Marker #2122 remembers Lexington’s Cheapside slave auction block and the thousands of enslaved Kentuckians sold here. For decades before the Civil War, Lexington was the center of the…