Historical Marker #741 in Lexington notes the political and military career of John Cabell Breckinridge, who at age thirty-six was the youngest vice president in U.S. history. John C.…

Historical Marker #1780 in Fayette County remembers native Kentucky artist Thomas Satterwhite Noble. The study of history occasionally introduces us to individuals that defy convention. These…

Historical Marker #3 in Lexington commemorates the Morgan House. This house, built by businessman John Wesley Hunt in 1814, has been the home of Hunt’s daughter and her husband Henrietta and Calvin…

Historical Marker #1888 in Lexington remembers Kentucky portraitist Matthew Harris Jouett, who painted some of Kentucky’s most well known nineteenth century personalities. Matthew Harris Jouett was…

Historical Marker #2238 in Fayette County notes the origins of Maddoxtown, a rural freedman’s community that developed during Reconstruction. For its first seventy plus years slavery was the…

Historical Marker #1550 in Lexington notes that city’s historic cemetery, which was dedicated in 1850. The mid-nineteenth century witnessed a rise in the construction of garden-style landscaped…

Historical Marker #1163 in Fayette County remembers the significance of hemp to the county’s nineteenth century economy. Early settlers to Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region found that hemp grew well in…

Historical Marker #17 in Fayette County commemorates Boone’s Station, a community founded by frontiersman Daniel Boone. Settling the Kentucky frontier was a daunting task. The earliest of those…

Historical Marker #945 in Lexington notes the Shryock family of architects, whose Kentucky buildings have become iconic reminders of the nineteenth century. Carpenter Mathias Shryock moved to…