Busy Cheapside

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

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 slave trade in Kentucky. Located in the heart of…