National Register of Historic Places

Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument

Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
Listed
July 11, 1976
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
76000873

About this property

Lexington Cemetery is a private, non-profit 170-acre (69 ha) rural cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1848 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery, in part to deal with burials from the 1833 cholera epidemic in the area. What became Lexington National Cemetery was established in 1861 to inter American Civil War casualties. It was designed by Charles S. Bell and John Lutz. It was originally 40 acres but has expanded to 170 acres with more than 64,000 interments. Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Location

833 W. Main St.
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
38.06441, -84.50910

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Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1976.

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