Ashland

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This file appears in: Henry Clay, Jr.
Ashland

This 1852 image shows Ashland before it was rebuilt by Clay’s son James. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: Henry Clay, Jr.

By Daniel Burge
Historical Marker #1 in Lexington notes the location of Ashland, the home and estate of Kentucky statesman Henry Clay. Henry Clay, Sr. was born in 1777 in Virginia. The son of a Baptist minister, Henry was the seventh of nine children. Clay worked…