Lexington was established in 1775 as a camp in the Virginia colony. A party of pioneers led by William McConnell established camp at the junction of the Elkhorn Creek. On April 19 of the same year, when he heard of the victory in the Battle of Lexington Concord, one of the battles of the Revolution, the camp was renamed Lexington, Massachusetts, after the battle field, Lexington. However, the construction of the town for permanent residence was delayed by four years due to the possibility of attack by the Native Americans around the town. In 1779, a party of 25 people led by Colonel Robert Patterson built a fortification there. Three years later, in 1782, Lexington became a formal town in Virginia by a resolution at the state assembly. In 1792, the western part of the state, including Lexington, was promoted to the state as Kentucky in an independent manner from Virginia.

Around 1820, Lexington became one of the largest and richest towns on the west side of the Allegheny Mountains. Because of the high level of culture, Lexington came to be known as "Athens in the West." John Wesley Hunt (John Wesley Hunt), a local business man, is one of the most famous residents of Lexington. Hunt was the first billionaire in the west side of the Argay Mountains. In 1832, Lexington was promoted to the city.

Kentucky before the Civil War was a slave state, and Lexington was also full of black slaves. In 1850, a fifth of the state's population was slaves, while Lexington had the largest slave population in Kentucky. But in the Civil War, Kentucky was neutral. Abraham Lincoln, then the President of the United States of America, and Jefferson Davis, the President of the United States of America, are both from Kentucky, and are related to Lexington. Davis was at the University of Transylvania in Lexington between 1823 and 1824. Lincoln's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was from Lexington, and after getting married in 1842, he and his wife visited Lexington several times.

In 1935, Lexington established the first U.S. drug-addicted research center called the Addiction Research Center. [1].

In 1974, Lexington became a city of Lexington Fehet County after the administrative integration with the Fehet County to which he belonged.

Lexington Fehet County City location in Kentucky
North latitude 38 degrees 01 minutes 47 seconds West longitude 84 degrees 29 minutes 41 seconds

Lexington Fehet County is located in the Bluegrass region of central Kentucky. The area of Fehet County is 733km² (283 mi²). The area is known for its natural beauty, fertile soil, excellent pasture lands and pasture lands. Several streams are also from the area and join the Kentucky River. The Kentucky River merges with the Ohio River and eventually the Mississippi River, and flows far down New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico.

climate

The average annual temperature of Lexington is 13°C (54.9°F) and the annual rainfall is 1,392mm. The climate is varied from season to season, and neither heat, cold, rain, wind or snow lasts for a long time. Like many cities in the eastern United States, Keppen belongs to Cfa (warm wet climate) in the climate division.

Lexington is regarded as the United States Worst 1 in a city susceptible to spring hay fever. (*) Louisville, incidentally, ranked fourth in the state.

Kentucky University

Lexington has long been supported by the production of racehorses and the tobacco industry. However, since 1950, industrial diversification has advanced, and the economy has changed to an economy centered on industry and university. There are 14 universities in the city, including three state universities including Kentucky University, and they are an important employer of the city.

The company's Fortune 500 includes Xerox (3,000 employees in 2013), printer maker Lexmark International (headquarter and factory, 2,800), Lockheed Martin (1,705) and IBM (552). Several large companies such as Amazon.com, General Electric, Toyota Motor Corporation and United Parcel Service are also based in Lexington.

Kentucky has a consumption tax rate of 6%. Daily necessities are exempt from taxation. The hotel's accommodation charges will be added with a further 6% hotel tax.

The airport at which Lexington takes up entrance is Bluegrass Airport. It has direct flights from major airlines' hub airport, as well as access via air routes from about 100 cities around the United States using transit buses.

• Around 6:00 a.m. (7:00 p.m. JST) on August 27, 2006, a computer flight (Comair Flight 5191, a subsidiary of Delta Air) from Bluegrass Airport to Atlanta, Georgia failed to take off and confirmed 49 people, including two Japanese, died (Comair Flight 5191).

In Lexington, two interstate highways, I-64 and I-75, meet. The I-64 runs in a ring road north-east of the city. It is an important highway between St. Louis and Virginia and between Louisville, the state's largest city, and Lexington. I-75 is a north-south arterial railroad linking Michigan to Florida, leading to major cities such as Detroit, Cincinnati, Atlanta and Tampa, and joins I-95 at Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

There is a bus terminal in Greyhound, where buses go to major cities such as Louisville and Cincinnati, St. Louis and Knoxville. There are no Amtrak stations.

As a public transportation facility, buses operated by Lex Tran (Lex Tran) cover a wide area within Lexington City and Fehet County. The Rex Tran is a joint transportation office jointly operated by Lexington City and Feyette County.

Lexington Herald-Leader is the main newspaper in Lexington. The weekly ACE Weekly and the monthly Nougat Magazine, 3, also reported the news of Lexington. The Kentucky University paper, KY Kernel,4 is also read on campus.

Major TV stations have branches in Lexington. Also, radio stations of AM3 and FM16 stations are provided in the city.

• Aviation Museum of Kentucky
• Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate)
• The Headley Whitney Museum
• Hunt Morgan House
• Keyneland Racecourse
• Kentucky Hose Park
• Mary Todd Lincoln House
• Red Mile Harness Track
• Southern Lights - November 18 - December 31 Limited
• Kentucky University Baseball Museum
• Waveland State Historic Site
• Lexington Cemetery
• University of Kentucky/Lexington-Fayette Urban State Environment Arboretum
• Rup Arena - A men's basketball team at Kentucky University is hosting a home game.
• McConnell Springs
• Lexington History Center

The following is demographic data from the 2000 census.

fundamental data

• Population: 260,512
• Number of households: 108,288 households
• Number of Families: 62,915 families
• Population density: 353.5 people/km² (915.6 people/mi²)
• Number of Homes: 116,167 houses
• Residential density: 157.6 doors/km² (408.3 doors/mi²)

According to an estimate from the same year, the population of the urban area covering seven counties was 424,778. The city is the center of the Lexington Frankfurt-Richmond Metropolitan Area, which was formed in 2005. [5]

population structure

• White: 81.04%
• African American: 13.48%
• Native American: 0.19%
• Asians: 2.46%
• Pacific Islands: 0.03%
• Other races: 1.21%
• Mixed: 1.58%
• Hispanic Latino: 3.29%

demographic structure

• Under 18: 21.3%
• 18-24 years old: 14.6%
• 25-44 years old: 33.2%
• 45-64 years old: 20.9%
• Over 65 years of age: 10.0%
• Median Age: 33 years old
• Sex ratio (male population per 100 women)
  • Total population: 96.5
  • Over 18 years of age: 94.3

Households and family (number of households)

• We have children under 18: 27.3%
• Married and living together: 43.5%
• Households where unmarried and divorced women are the householders: 11.5%
• Non-family: 41.9%
• Single Family: 31.7%
• Elderly people aged 65 and older live alone: 7.5%
• average number of constituent members
  • Households: 2.29 people
  • Family: 2.90

income and family

• median income
  • Households: 39,813 US dollars
  • Family: 58,677 US dollars
  • gender
    • Male: 36,166 US dollars
    • Female: 26,964 US dollars
• Income per population: 23,109 US dollars
• below poverty line
  • Population: 12.9%
  • Number of Relatives: 8.2%
  • Under 18: 14.3%
  • Over 65 years of age: 8.6%

There are 230 Christian churches, Muslim mosques and Jewish synagogues in Lexington.

• Shinhidaka Town, Hidaka County, Hokkaido Prefecture has established a sister city relationship with Lexington City.
• Toyota's factory is located in Georgetown, a suburb of Lexington. It is said that nearly 300 companies, including Japanese automobile parts-related companies, operate in tandem with Toyota, and that Japanese people live in about 1,000 people (2007). The southern part of the city is home to the Japanese. 　Generally, there are nearly Man-o-War between TatesCreek and Halloads. It is thought that Hibari, a Japanese food store, and Fayette Mall, a large shopping mall, are in the neighborhood. 　For this reason, Japanese going to the Toyota plant in the northern part of the city will be given relatively long commuting hours.

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• Official city web page (English)
• Official web page of Fayette Co. Public Schools (English)
• Official web page of Fayette Co. Sheriff (English)
• 500's on the Main
• Artek Lofts (English)
• Main & Rose (English)
• Nunn Building Lofts (English)
• Urban Life & Style Tour 2005 (English)
• Smiley Pete Publishing - Community Newspaper
• Lexington, KY (Yahoo!Map Map)