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January 5, 2022

The congregation of the Greater Liberty Baptist Church dates to around 1882, when several members of the Main Street Baptist Church, an African American church founded in 1862, left to form their own church. The new congregation built a church on Corral Street, but as the church membership swelled, the church moved again and again. (read more)

Categories: Fayette County, Kentucky churches

Tags: #africanamericanchurch, #africanamericanhistory, #kentuckyarchitecture, #lexingtonky

April 1, 2020

You miss so much viewing the world from a car. I’ve driven down North Limestone Street in Lexington hundreds of times – but what you glimpse through the windows of a car is different, in a hundred small ways, from what you observe while on foot. And it was on foot, trudging through a January (read more)

Categories: African American History, Fayette County

Tags: #africanamericanhistory, #AfricanCemeteryNo2, #shotgunhouse

September 7, 2019

I am a big fan of the public library system in the United States (or, “li-berry” as I pronounced it as a child). Reading is integral to my existence, and wherever I’ve lived or visited, I seek out the local library. Andrew Carnegie – or rather, the Carnegie Foundation of New York – helped fund (read more)

Categories: Jefferson County, Kentucky Carnegie Libraries, Louisville

Tags: #africanamericanhistory, #carnegielibrary, #louisvillefreepubliclibrary, #louisvilleky

February 12, 2018

When the cornerstone was laid for what is now Shiloh Baptist Church in 1923, it was proclaimed “one of the city’s most handsome edifices.” The stately, Beaux Arts/classical style church, built in a yellow brick, was the long-awaited dream of the Fifth Street Baptist Church, which had begun as a satellite branch of First Baptist (read more)

Categories: African American History, Churches, Fayette County, Kentucky churches

Tags: #africanamericanhistory, #edwinstamler, #felixmemorialbaptistchurch, #fifthstreetbaptistchurch, #kentuckyassociationracetrack, #shilohbaptistchurch

Greater Liberty Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky

Thomas Family Houses, Lexington, Kentucky

Kentucky Carnegie Libraries: Louisville Free Public Library Western Branch

Historic Shiloh Baptist Church, Lexington, Kentucky

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