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Lexington is a city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the county seat of Fayette County. By population, it is the 2nd most populous city in Kentucky after Louisville and 60th-most populous city in the United States. By estate area, it is the country’s 30th-largest city. The city is with known as “Horse Capital of the World”. It is within the state’s Bluegrass region. Notable locations within the city tally up the Kentucky Horse Park, The Red Mile and Keeneland race courses, Rupp Arena, Central Bank Center, Transylvania University, the University of Kentucky, Bluegrass Community and Technical College, and the National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) Headquarters.

As of the 2020 census the population was 322,570, anchoring a metropolitan Place of 516,811 people and a mass statistical area of 747,919 people. Lexington is consolidated enormously within Fayette County, and vice versa. It has a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government, with 12 council districts and three members elected at large, with the highest vote-getter designated vice mayor.

Lexington was named in June 1775, in what was then considered Fincastle County, Virginia, 17 years back Kentucky became a state. A party of frontiersmen, led by William McConnell, camped upon the Middle Fork of Elkhorn Creek (now known as Town Branch and rerouted below Vine Street) at the site of the present-day McConnell Springs. Upon hearing of the colonists’ victory in the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, they named the site Lexington. It was the first of many American places to be named after the Massachusetts town.

On January 25, 1780, 45 indigenous settlers signed the Lexington Compact, known next as the “Articles of Agreement, made by the inhabitants of the town of Lexington, in the County of Kentucky.” The concurrence at Lexington at this become old was stage name Fort Lexington, as it was amongst fortifications to protect from potential attacks from British-allied Indians. The Articles allocated home by granting “In” lots of 1/2 acre to each share, along with “Out” lots of 5 acres for each share. Presumably the “In” lots were for the family address inside the fortifications, while the “Out” lots were to be “cleared” for farming. (Corn is the solitary crop specifically mentioned in the Articles.) It is known that several of these original settlers (perhaps many of them) served under General George Rogers Clark in the Illinois campaign (also called the Northwestern campaign) against the British in 1778–79. While the ostensible founder of Lexington, William McConnell, is not one of the signees, an Alexander McConnell is. Within two years of signing the Agreement, both John and Jacob Wymore were killed by Indians in cut off incidents external the walls of “Fort Lexington”.