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Lexington is Home to Many Civil War Sites

Wandering the lush, peaceful gardens of the Lexington Cemetery – the final resting place of many luminary figures of the Civil War – one senses that the serenity of this place belies the region's impassioned, conflicted past.   The Commonwealth of Kentucky lay on the dividing line between North and South, and while its legislature voted to remain in the Union, many of Kentucky's native sons took up arms for the Confederate cause. Kentuckians of that era bore a unique burden as... Read More »
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Lexington's Shaker Village

You might say Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Harrodsburg is a little piece of heaven. “Shaker Village encompasses 3,000 acres of beautiful rolling farmland,” says Aimee Darnell, publicist for Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, which is located 25 miles southwest of Lexington. “It's the site where a remarkable community once flourished, and our mission is to preserve that sacred ground.”   The Shakers were America's largest and best-known communal society in the... Read More »