History of Lexington, Kentucky: Its Early Annals and Recent Progress Tapa blanda - 2013

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Heritage Books, Inc.. New. The History of Lexington begins in the mist of prehistory It is believed that it was originally “an ancient walled city of vast extent and population,” complete with stone mounds and mummies in subterranean cemeteries The Indians later entered this region and called it “Kantuckee,” meaning “dark and bloody ground” They regarded with “suspicious awe” the land once occupied by a “strange race which their ancestor had long ago exterminated” With the arrival of the White Man, the Red Man faced a similar fate Although Daniel Boone first gazed across Kentucky in 1769, and several hunting and surveying expeditions crossed the area in subsequent years, the first permanent white settlement in Lexington was not made until 1775; the new community was named in honor of the Massachusetts town where the opening battle of the Revolutionary War had been fought just a few months earlier This history begins with the ancient inhabitants of the area and continues down to… Leer más

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