Timeline of Lexington, Kentucky

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The following is a timeline of the history of Lexington, Kentucky, United States.

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Lexington, Kentucky, 1871

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lexington, Kentucky</span> City in Kentucky, United States

Lexington is the second-most-populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the 60th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Fayette County. By land area, it is the country's 30th-largest city.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Winchester, Kentucky</span> City in Kentucky, United States

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Madeline McDowell Breckinridge</span> American leader of the womens suffrage movement in Kentucky

Madeline (Madge) McDowell Breckinridge was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement in Kentucky. She married Desha Breckinridge, editor of the Lexington Herald, which advocated women's rights, and she lived to see the women of Kentucky vote for the first time in the presidential election of 1920. She also initiated progressive reforms for compulsory school attendance and child labor. She founded many civic organizations, notably the Kentucky Association for the Prevention and Treatment of Tuberculosis, an affliction from which she had personally suffered. She led efforts to implement model schools for children and adults, parks and recreation facilities, and manual training programs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laura Clay</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">First African Baptist Church (Lexington, Kentucky)</span> Historic church in Kentucky, United States

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Douglass School (Lexington, Kentucky)</span> School in Lexington, Kentucky

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cadentown School</span> School in Lexington, Kentucky

Cadentown School in Lexington, Kentucky was a primary public school for black children in the segregated Fayette County Public Schools from about 1879 to 1922. The building that originally housed Cadentown School, located at 705 Caden Lane, is no longer extant. However, the Rosenwald Fund School is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Fayette County.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Travelling Church</span> American 18th-century church group

The Travelling Church was a large group of pioneering settlers in the late 1700s that emigrated from Spotsylvania County, Virginia, to the Kentucky District of Virginia. It was the largest group that migrated to the area in a single movement. The group was led by the Reverend Lewis Craig, one of three pastor sons of Toliver Craig Sr., and its core was his Baptist congregation. The group of about 600 people arrived at Gilbert's Creek, Kentucky, in December 1781. Other preachers in the Travelling Church were Lewis Craig's younger brother Rev. Joseph Craig and his beloved slave Peter Durrett, who later became a pioneering black minister in Lexington, Kentucky. Lewis Craig's other brother who was a minister, Rev. Elijah Craig, did not come with the rest of the Church, as he remained for a while in Virginia to help James Madison establish constitutional religious liberty assurances before joining the group later. The group's pioneering members were to found many churches, settlements, and other institutions that continue to this day.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elise Bennett Smith</span> American suffragist (1871-1964)

Elise Clay Bennett Smith was President of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association from 1915 to 1916, and served as an Executive Committee member for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her last name changed several times as she married three men in succession: from her birth surname of Bennett she became Smith, then Jefferson, and finally Gagliardini.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Christine Bradley South</span> American suffragist (1878-1957)

Christine Bradley South was president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association for three years (1916–1919). She was a Vice-President of KERA when her cousin, Governor Edwin P. Morrow, signed into law Kentucky's ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on January 6, 1920. She served as a delegate from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention in 1920, 1928 and 1932; and in 1937 she served on the Republican National Committee.

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Bibliography

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