Ashland The Henry Clay Estate

Name: Ashland The Henry Clay Estate
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ISBN: 9780738543956

ISBN-10: 0738543950

ISBN-13: 9780738543956

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eric Brooks

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On September 13, 1804, Henry Clay entered into an agreement to purchase 125 acres on Todds Road just outside the city limits of Lexington, Kentucky. With this transaction, Clay began the creation of one of Lexingtons most important sites. Over the next two centuries, Ashland would be home to five generations of one of Kentuckys first families. Ashland would also be the source of some of Kentuckys finest horses; the location of a small but important Civil War skirmish; the birthplace of the states flagship university; the home to one of the states first museums; one of Lexingtons first subdivisions; and finally a National Historic Landmark. Many books have been written about Henry Clay,…

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 4/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.044
Language: English

Eric Brooks, curator at Ashland since 2002, has had the privilege of exploring the rich history of the estate and its residents through the collections and archives of the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation, the University of Kentucky, Transylvania University, and through personal testimony of Clay family descendants. In this volume, Brooks reveals the many previously hidden stories and images of Ashland, Henry Clay's historic estate.