Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...

LEXINGTON, N.C. (WGHP) — Lexington’s fame for barbecue is undisputed. Every October, up to 200,000 visitors come to Lexington for its famous Barbecue Festival, and while they arrive for the food, they ...

Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown. Compiled by ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A new partnership between the League of Women Voters and the Lexington History Museum aims to create a living archive highlighting the stories of everyday women making a ...

This International Women’s Day, 106 women nominated by community members are recognized right in front of Lexington’s STAND monument, a tribute to the Women’s Suffrage Movement.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — Last year, the city of Lexington, history museum staff members and the Commission on Veterans Affairs members developed a unique way of celebrating Veterans Day. “They were ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - The City of Lexington is celebrating turning 250 this month, but the city’s exact founding date remains unknown. “We don’t know. We know it was early June, but we are not ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. (WIS) - Tucked away on Fox Street off Highway 378 sits a property that tells the story of how Lexington began. The Lexington County Museum features dozens of unique buildings that make ...

A photo of the Burrowes Mustard Factory in Lexington on Water Street. Photo published in the Lexington Herald-Leader on Nov. 28, 1948, seven years after the death of Nathan Burrowes. J. Winston ...