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Fayette County - African American History

Marker # 2110 African American Cemetery No. 2

This cemetery is the earliest recorded found in Lexington, Kentucky to be owned and managed by African Americans. There are members of the United States Colored Troops who served during the American Civil War buried at this site.

Marker # 1928 African American Physicians

This site is the office building which housed the prominent African American physicians and pharmacy. Among the doctors who practiced here between 1909 to 1930 include: Obed Cooley, Nathaniel J. Ridley, J.C. Coleman, John Hunter who was the first African American surgeon at St. Joseph’s hospital, and Joseph Laine who founded a medical clinic in Louisville, KY.

Marker # 2122 Cheapside Slave Auction Block

African Americans were sold as slaves at Cheapside Auction Block on the public square in the 19^th century. Lexington was the center of slave trading in Kentucky, with thousands of slaves being sold at this location.

Slavery in Fayette County, Kentucky:

On the corner of the Fayette Courthouse lawn, stood the whipping post established in 1847 to punish slaves for such offenses as being on the streets after 7 p.m. Fayette County was one of the largest slaveholding counties in all of Kentucky. By 1860, one in four residents of the city of Lexington were slaves.

Marker # 1963 Colored Orphan Industrial Home

This orphan home was opened in 1894, by Mrs. E. Belle Mitchell Jackson. Orphans and other African-Americans learned to read and write.

Marker # 1806 Historic Land (Pleasant Green Baptist Church)

The land upon which Pleasant Green Baptist Church stands was conveyed in 1822 by Dr. Frederick Ridgely, a white surgeon in Lexington, to trustees Harry Quills, Benjamin Admon, and Solomon Walker, all slaves, for purpose of erecting an African church. The African American congregation of Pleasant Green Baptist continues to operate at this same location.

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